Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who. ”

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. ”

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects. ”

Early youth is a baffling time. ”

Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier. ”

Consider radiology. Technology is going to reduce the use of those machines because doctors aren't going to need to send patients two or three times for radiology. They're going to have access to what the previous specialist took. There's also going to be devices that are coming out that are much less costly. ”

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. ”

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls. ”

I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust. ”

I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics. ”