Quotes About Youth

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

So many boys, so little time.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

I like "As Long As You Love Me" and "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving - you just can't help it! And "Teach Me How to Dougie" gets Zendaya and I every time.