Young Quotes

"When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!"

"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"I'm much too young to feel this damn old"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself"

Freddie Hubbard, Musician

"My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination"

Cornel West, Educator

"All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young"

Dave Davies, Musician

"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried"

Cindy Margolis, Model

"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway"

George Murray, Poet

"I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls"

Delta Burke, Actress

"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade"

Gertrude Jekyll, Celebrity

"I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again"

Don Adams, Comedian

"I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago"

Charles Olson, Poet

"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record"

Billy Joel, Musician

"A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him"

Freddie Hubbard, Musician

"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I've been noticing gravity since I was very young"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band"

Brooke Burke, Model

"Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

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