Young Quotes

"When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly"

Michael Arad, Architect

"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine"

Isak Dinesen, Writer

"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on"

George Clooney, Actor

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other"

Earl Scruggs, Musician

"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually"

James Lafferty, Actor

"In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts"

Ian Hart, Actor

"It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers"

Ian Hart, Actor

"So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart"

Dick Armey, Politician

"As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself"

Jeremy London, Actor

"It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me"

David Beckham, Athlete

"I started playing music at a pretty young age"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age"

Dana Delany, Actress

"A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up"

Natalie Cole, Musician

"I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?"

Carrie Snodgress, Actress

"The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents"

Mike DeWine, Politician

"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in"

James D'arcy, Actor

"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream"

Donald G. Mitchell

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