Quotes About Youth

I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

I wish I had started to play the ukulele much earlier in life.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I was such a worrier at school. I wish I could go back and tell myself to stop stressing.

When I was a little boy, my wish was to be on an airplane. My wish was to get on a plane and fly to the sky.

I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.

When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.

When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in 'The Goodwin Games'... it did make me wish that was an experience that I had.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I wish I could spend my money with more pleasure, but I was one of those kids who squirrelled away my pocket money.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.