Young Quotes

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

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966"

June Jordan, Writer

"You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young"

Antony Jay, Writer

"I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene"

Young Buck, Musician

"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality"

James Loeb, Businessman

"When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens"

Michael York, Actor

"I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us"

Rebecca H. Davis

"Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image"

Michael York, Actor

"When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years"

Max Muller, Educator

"Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into"

John Kluge, Businessman

"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs"

Peter Benchley, Author

"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated"

Neil Young, Musician

"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life"

Jane Badler, Actress

"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families"

John Baldacci, Politician

"You can only be stupid when you're young"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them"

William Kunstler, Activist

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work"

Harold Brodkey, Author

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