Quotes About Youth

For kids back home, making our state proud is the biggest thing.

I do ride my bike a lot.

At 19 I left school and embarked on a 9-day bike ride with friends from London to Monte Carlo.

Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.

You know what Bill Cosby did wrong? He started criticizing young black men.

We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.

I want to go back to college for sure! Who doesn't, right? All your bills are paid for. You're there with all of your friends.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

I went to a biological exhibition when I was about ten or 11, so I was really into biology, nature, that kind of thing.

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

I don't like to do press. But I know sometimes I need to do it because every time I do there's young people - black and white, but I think about young African-Americans because that's the experience I grew up with - who hear it.

Being able to blend with the new kids and the youth will give you longevity and will put legs on your career.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.