Young Quotes

"I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves"

Mick Fleetwood, Musician

"As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

"Those whom the gods love grow young"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old"

Mark Twain, Author

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist