Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish has big lips. ”

The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down. ”

Growing up with a house full of women and seeing them look good no matter what they put on every morning just inspired me to look good myself. ”

We all want to be identified as someone cool, and I have struggled with repping where I'm from and my heritage before. It's part of growing pains. But when people see me being proud of what I am - and they are what I am too - it makes them proud. That's why I try to represent my Asian and my black side. ”

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create. ”

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance. ”

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK. ”

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. ”

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels. ”

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ”