Quotes About Youth

At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him and the example he set.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you, and I find that it's all over the score of 'Hamilton.'

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.

Emotions were never the most important thing when I was at school; it was all about academics and this constant performance of pretending that you're okay and getting on with life.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day - I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.

I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

The one thing that you can't ever take away are the relationships, the experiences that you have, particularly at the high school level.

The one thing you dont want to do is deny young boys and girls, people that want to play the game and support the game, the opportunity to do so because of limited spots.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.

The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the Under-16 or the Under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side.

At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.