Young Quotes

"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"

"As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark"

"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

"I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim"

James A. Garfield, President

"You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays"

Carol Alt, Model

"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Death is a distant rumor to the young"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task"

William Congreve, Poet

"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

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