Young Quotes

"Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"You know, I feel sorry for the young artists"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere"

Edward G. Rendell, Politician

"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young"

Suzanne Fields

"A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't"

Suzanne Fields

"I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one"

Shawn Johnson, Athlete

"A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story"

John McGahern, Writer

"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"Most women are not as young as they are painted"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"I have always loved animals since I was very young"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform"

Victor Garber, Actor

"If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country"

Danny Glover, Actor

"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

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