Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work. ”

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. ”

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. ”

Growing up, I always liked Catwoman and Superman; they inspired me. ”

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth. ”

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it. ”

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one. ”

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming. ”

My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation. ”

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up. ”