Young Quotes

"The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike"

James Cagney, Actor

"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young"

Kim Elizabeth

"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"

Hugh Mackay

"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics"

Edward Said, Writer

"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity"

Nick Faldo, Athlete

"I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot"

Al Unser, Athlete

"It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle"

Matt Dillon, Actor

"Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young"

Augustus, Royalty

"When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz"

Joe Simon

"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer"

Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity

"Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone"

David Brooks, Politician

"I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves"

Mick Fleetwood, Musician

"As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened"

Hector Hugh Munro, Novelist

"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

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