Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me. ”

I had problems growing up. I had a sudden growth spurt at 15 or 16, and I got a lot of injuries as a result. I gained all this muscle, and my bones couldn't cope. I used to get so tired. ”

I'm not one to bow under immense pressure. I know how to deal with it. As a youth player growing up and playing for England, you deal with it then and get used to it. You just carry on into the bigger stages, and it has become natural to me. ”

As a youth player, I played for England and got used to it, and I have just to carry it on to the bigger stage. ”

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here. ”

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools. ”

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ”

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults. ”

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. ”

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. ”