Gerry Schwartz Quotes

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

I'm just a young kid.

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.