Young Quotes

"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind"

"I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic"

"Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives"

"Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts"

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases"

William Osler, Scientist

"I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young"

Rebecca H. Davis

"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going"

Jena Malone, Actress

"But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth"

Rebecca H. Davis

"Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young"

Jena Malone, Actress

"I am young. I better show off what I have now"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age"

Marguerite Young, Author

"Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12"

Gail Porter, Celebrity

"I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"You're a good example of why some animals eat their young"

Jim Samuels

"I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me"

John Hughes, Director

"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me"

Patty Duke, Actress

"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later"

William Jackson

"Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young"

William Feather, Author

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