Quotes About Youth

I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

I had a lot of older friends when I was a kid, from sort of all walks of life, and that's still the way it is.

By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So early on, I heard of Charles Darwin. I guess, you know, he was the big hero. And, you know, you understand life as it now exists through evolution.

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.

Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives them their road map.

I look at myself as one of the silly, goofy kids that walks around the halls and has fun. I'm just like everybody else.

I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

Every kid growing up who takes to boxing, their goal is to win a belt. I've been doing this since I was eight years old.

In my day, 20-year-olds already had 150 first-team appearances under their belts.

When you're young on the bench you can't show yourself really.

I am a basketball player. For me to sit on the bench at 21, 22, not what I wanted.

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

We want to channelize the youth so that the state benefits from them and help Uttar Pradesh become a developed state.

I am a Bengali guy from Kolkata, who started singing at the age of 10.

When I was young, people used to be like, 'You look just like Halle Berry - out of Losing Isaiah.' I don't care; she was still beautiful in that movie!

As a young player the most important thing besides having a very good coach is to play a lot because you improve that way.

Even when I was a child, my best friend was a 92-year-old woman.

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

I've got very long limbs and for the best part of my life, they've been very uncoordinated.

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old.

When I came over, there was a lot of criticism that I was too young to go to England. I just wanted to take that experience and be a better player.