Young Quotes

"You can't expect to be old and wise if you were never young and crazy"

"Adults keep saying: 'We owe it to the young people to give them hope.' But I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act"

Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist

"Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29"

Robert Conrad, Director

"Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs"

Robert Conrad, Director

"Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young"

Martha Beck, Author

"I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways"

William Shatner, Actor

"The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls"

Black Elk, Leader

"If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future"

John Hoeven, Politician

"And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side"

Bob Riley, Politician

"I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print"

Marguerite Yourcenar, Novelist

"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I can't seem to write young enough anymore"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples"

Graham Chapman, Comedian

"It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man"

Kim Hunter, Actress

"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry"

Bob Filner, Politician

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