Youth
Mark Anthony Rogowski was born in Brooklyn, New York but moved to Escondido, California at age three once his parents divorced. Rogowski was a gifted athlete, playing little league baseball in his youth. Rogowski started to skateboard at age seven. When Rogowski was ten years old, while most of his friends were into surfing, he started to hang out at skate parks. After two years of skating local parks, Rogowski was picked up by a local skate team in 1978 at age 12.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
“After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“The forward Youth that would appear
Must now forsake his Muses dear,
Nor in the Shadows sing
His Numbers languishing.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)