Young Quotes

"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"I was very sexual from a very young age"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff"

Jessica Simpson, Musician

"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing"

Mickey Rourke, Actor

"When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win"

George Clooney, Actor

"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life"

George Clooney, Actor

"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics"

Susan George, Activist

"Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them"

Julie Harris, Actress

"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief"

Julian McMahon, Actor

"Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit"

Guy Debord, Writer

"I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young"

Amy Grant, Musician

"The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid"

Warren Zevon, Musician

"The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well"

Gale Gordon, Actor

"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"When you are young your imagination is so clear"

Nina Blackwood, Celebrity

"I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain"

Keith Miller, Author

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