Quotes About Youth

The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.

I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I've known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I'd been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.

Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.

There were gangs in the school I went to. They fought each other constantly.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it to college. All the negative things were all around me.

Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?

There were a lot of gangs in high school. Instead of being in a gang, I decided to dance.

I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.

When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

When I was 10, I would only shop in the guys' section at the Gap.

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.

We started the band when I was about 19 or 20. At that age, it would have been kind of hard to imagine a lot of the stuff that I've written. We were playing garage rock. I wanted to dash out three chords and scream. But if you do that for 20 years, what's the point?

We started our band in a garage when we were 15.