Quotes About Youth

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.