Young Quotes

"We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved"

Chuck Grassley, Politician

"You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.""

Tom Cruise, Actor

"Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early"

Bootsy Collins, Musician

"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young"

Mary Garden

"But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays"

Richard Gough

"I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity"

Nolan Ryan, Athlete

"The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"

Marsilio Ficino, Philosopher

"It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art"

Liz Phair, Musician

"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage"

James Payn, Novelist

"The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect"

James Payn, Novelist

"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean"

James Franco, Actor

"It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing"

Joshua Slocum, Explorer

"Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young"

Kim Wilde, Musician

"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age"

Diane Kruger, Model

"Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days"

David Talbot, Journalist

"I have invested in the stock market since I was very young"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation"

Doc Severinsen, Musician

"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion"

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Lawyer

"I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

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