When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
I always had a passion to write as a young girl.
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.
You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
I was making too much money. I was too young. I didn't know how to deal.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.
Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
