Young Quotes

"When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is"

"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week"

Joe Morton, Actor

"I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights"

Cole Younger, Criminal

"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Like any young person, I do what I want"

Anna Kournikova, Athlete

"It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems"

Angela Davis, Activist

"You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers"

Elton John, Musician

"And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening"

Elton John, Musician

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents"

Adele, Musician

"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"I think every young cook wants to write a book"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it"

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it"

Lawrence Halprin, Architect

"I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things"

Lawrence Halprin, Architect

"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

"Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics"

Magnus Carlsen

"I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick"

Magnus Carlsen

"When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing"

Greg Rusedski, Athlete

"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon"

Jim Rogers, Businessman

"We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit"

Michael Todd, Producer

"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath"

Ville Valo, Musician

"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination"

Sam Levenson, Author

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