Young Quotes

"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood"

Coolio, Musician

"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious"

Sadie Frost, Actress

"The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were"

Nina Simone, Musician

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift"

Max Cannon, Artist

"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young"

Carrie Snodgress, Actress

"Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me"

Justin Bieber, Musician

"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!"

Marla Sokoloff, Actor

"Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it"

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained"

Tony Randall, Actor

"I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did"

Terri Windling, Artist

"When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland"

Terri Windling, Artist

"The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education"

John Conyers, Politician

"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis"

Amelie Mauresmo, Athlete

"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet"

Philip Levine, Poet

"It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young"

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Actor

"It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

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