Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center. ”

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. ”

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible. ”

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. ”

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying. ”

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very difficult. It's not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest. ”

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right. ”

I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go. ”

Growing up as a Brit, Arthur and Merlin and Camelot, and just the idea of it, is embedded in the culture and in your soul, growing up. King Arthur is alongside Robin Hood, as those great British folk tales, myths and icons. ”

In a wider sense, I'm terrified about my kids coming down to breakfast and saying, ‘Trump said this and they've voted him president?' How do you explain to your children how to behave as a man in this world?" ”