Youthful Pursuits Quotes

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it now, but the very first sport that I did, if you can call it sport, was ballroom dancing. I was aged seven to nine or 10.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

I have an opera coach who I went to as a teenager, when I was 15 and 16 years old. When I went to college, I forgot about it.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

I went to art school when I was little.