Youngster Quotes

My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young men that were moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first kibbutz.

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn`t fully appreciate. But I`m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

What I`ve achieved now is something that I always figured I would as a kid. I`ve had that type of determination since I was a youngster playing around the playgrounds, getting dirty after school.

That other saying, I`m a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

(Independent surveys estimate 1.5%-2% of Florida`s high school athletes might be using steroids.) But against a student base of 215,000 athletes, it`s kind of scary to think that possibly 4,000 are at risk out there, ... We don`t want to see any youngster`s life at risk.

I`ve been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It`s a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we`re losing a little bit of that right now.

It was imperative when I started my training to have a teacher who would really look after whatever talent I had as a youngster.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

There is now no incentive for any youngster to enter the sport.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career