Youngster Quotes

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Marilyn Monroe

Father, Different, House

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
E. O. Wilson

Read, Bible, Southern

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

Different, Leader, Group

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern

War, Debt, Growing

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Failure, Teacher, Parents

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.
Mike Ditka

Change, Mean, Bit

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.
Ben Affleck

Long, Thinking, Remember

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
Jack Buck

Politics, Beautiful, Game

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.
Ernie Harwell

Parents, Saying, Old

Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
Andy Serkis

Life, Family, Great

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Understand, Why, Acting

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Home, Mother, Christian

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

Baseball, Growing, Played

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

Black, Free, Stand

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
Bob Brown

Talk, Difficult, Himself

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
Joseph Stiglitz

Why, Poverty, Exist

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
Roger Penrose

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.
Arthur Godfrey

Life, Music, School

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.
Ryan Giggs

School, Black, Knew

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
Ryan Giggs

Dad, Real, Hero

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.
Armand Assante

Great, Acting, Dream

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies

Great, Ambition, Enjoyed

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
Ben Webster

Night, Different, Place

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.
Anne Cassidy

Life, Him, Small

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