Quotes About Youth

I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.

Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

Every kid thinks about scoring rather than not conceding.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'

You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter.

I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to come to the NBA from Africa, I felt I had to do my best to recruit more young Africans to come and play in the NBA - and also find a way to bring the NBA to Africa.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.