Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation. ”

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. ”

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up. ”

Growing up, I always wanted to sing. ”

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans! ”

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. ”

Growing up, our meals consisted primarily of vegetables, and then we had small amounts of meat. ”

I make my food in such a way that people can eat it every single day. My dad passed away from a heart attack, so it's always been very important for me to make food I love, the food we made growing up, but in a way that it won't be harmful to my body or to the people I love. Just as long as it's not boring. It has to be flavorful and delicious. ”

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating. ”

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father. ”