Young Quotes

"Pop music should be about young people"

"Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work"

Kenneth G. Wilson, Scientist

"So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost"

Ken Lucas, Politician

"I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested"

Jeffrey Tambor, Actor

"There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught"

Nathaniel Smith, Politician

"I love to work with young kids"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard"

Margaret Sackville, Poet

"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart"

Harry Crosby, Writer

"If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier"

Darrell Royal, Coach

"There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man"

Ana Castillo, Novelist

"Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net"

Franklin Pierce Adams, Writer

"It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me"

Al Kaline, Athlete

"I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war"

Allan Massie

"Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad"

Mark Hoppus, Musician

"My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it"

Sarah Polley, Actress

"Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years"

Tim Hudson

"Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature"

Victor Salva, Director

"I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear"

William Merritt Chase, Artist

"They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe"

Ray Brown, Musician

"Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things"

Big Bill Broonzy, Composer

"It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration"

Bettie Page, Model

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now"

Mike Peters, Cartoonist

"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still"

William Cartwright, Dramatist

"A woman is as young as her knees"

Mary Quant, Designer

"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them"

Richard Henry Lee, Politician

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young"

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

"If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized"

Jacques Chirac, Statesman

"Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard"

Vera Miles, Actress

"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that"

Gene Hackman, Actor

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