Quotes About 12 Year Olds

#1. One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever.

Kirk Hammett

#2. Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

Shayne Ward

#3. It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read.

Newt Gingrich

#4. I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

Warren Spector

#5. These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

E. O. Wilson

#6. Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who don't follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.

Rila Fukushima

#8. I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

Hannibal Buress

#9. There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Erwin Schrodinger

#11. If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds ... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Kevin Bacon

#12. If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.

Billy Graham

#13. Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#14. Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana?" Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look.
"We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit," Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him.

Larry McMurtry

#15. I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

Joe Paterno

#16. Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

Claude C. Hopkins

#17. I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

Lance Armstrong

#18. What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

Ricky Williams

#19. Thank God for the grace to work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. As i crawled up the bed to sit beside him, my pterodactyl butterflies somersaulted in my stomach. Good God, he was gorgeous and i was in bed with him.

Katie McGarry

#21. Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.

Richard Blumenthal

#22. When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

Shaun White

#23. John McCain was a prisoner of war.

Fred Thompson

#24. And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

David Levithan

#25. If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

Paul Graham