Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view. ”

To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist. ”

Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins. ”

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of real friends, and the people I was friends with, I've grown apart from - they were frenemies more than anything. ”

When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up. ”

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality. ”

Here's something we're rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent. ”

For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us who fought our way to freedom, as it was for the millions who joined decolonization struggles in the African continent. ”

We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth. ”

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ”