Quotes About Youth

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.

Older readers will remember there used to be matches on Christmas Day. I remember leaving the fireside and the presents to watch matches on the day as a boy but such matches were rare by the time I began playing.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people.

When I was younger, every time I stopped work and had a holiday, I'd break out in a rash. A dermatologist put it down to stress, but it never seemed to affect me when I was busy.

When I was little, I was obsessed with Roland Rat. I also loved Danger Mouse. Later on, when I got a bit older, I was obsessed with Ren & Stimpy, but Roland Rat and Danger Mouse, they were my guys. They were my team.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

When I was a kid in the 6th grade and first learned how to dance with a girl, we had a record called 'Shake Rattle and Roll,' made by a group called Bill Haley and His Comets: 'Get out in that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans.' It was all about mundane things.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.