Young Quotes

"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through"

Otto Dix, Artist

"If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose"

Terry Brennan

"The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy"

Jonathan Klein, Businessman

"I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that"

John Denver, Musician

"Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign"

Merrill Markoe, Author

"Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets"

Max Baucus, Politician

"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off"

Martin C. Smith

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it"

William Temple

"Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track"

Betty Shabazz, Activist

"I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end"

Pras Michel, Musician

"Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young"

John Thorn, Historian

"How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off"

Peter Gabriel, Musician

"When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous"

Robert Barnes, Celebrity

"When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people"

Patti LaBelle, Musician

"The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman"

Kevin Williamson, Author

"I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age"

Jenny Eclair, Comedian

"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing"

George Woodcock, Writer

"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress

"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon"

David James Elliott, Actor

"I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more"

Catherine Bell, Model

"It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards"

Bruce Jenner, Athlete

"No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out"

Arthur Lydiard, Athlete

"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit"

Thomas Willis, Scientist

"In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects"

John Pople, Scientist

"With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning"

Roy Haynes, Musician

"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights"

William Wells Brown, Activist

"One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh"

Michael Aspel, Journalist

"People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd"

George Thorogood, Musician

"I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage"

Jermaine Dupri, Musician

"Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young"

Kate Millett, Activist

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