Young Quotes

"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years"

Major Owens, Politician

"What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be"

John Astin, Actor

"What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned"

Major Owens, Politician

"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid"

Donal Logue, Actor

"I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such"

Erin Moran, Actress

"Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things"

Jim Costa, Politician

"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution"

Huey Newton, Activist

"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised"

Walter Salles, Director

"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil"

Walter Salles, Director

"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here"

Ruth Brown, Musician

"I got into the acting business very young"

James MacArthur, Actor

"I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do"

James De La Vega, Artist

"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young"

David Guterson, Author

"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages"

Esther Williams, Actress

"Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way"

David Niven, Actor

"I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against"

David Niven, Actor

"People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old"

Leigh Hunt, Poet

"Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well"

Iris Chang, Historian

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