Quotes About Youth

If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

The grunge thing was a little bit atrocious. 'Let's all put on plaid shirts and be as dirty as possible!'

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

I never really followed grunge.

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.

I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.

When I first worked with Mark Harmon I was 15 years old on 'Harts of the West.' He had a pretty heavy guest role as a drunken rodeo clown in our second or third episode.

As a teenager you bounce off your mum, they give you guidance.

I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

I was the world's worst Brownie and Girl Guide and I never did camping.

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

I think that's the problem, when you're a young filmmaker and you're starting out, you don't know people, you're easily lead, you don't know the right people to talk to, you really need guides.

My role is just about sharing my experiences with the younger guys in the team. It is just like how parents guide their kids or a teacher guides his students.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

I have long been guilty of dressing too young for my age.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.