Young Quotes

"I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young"

Kim Elizabeth

"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"

Hugh Mackay

"The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to"

John Lindsay, Politician

"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics"

Edward Said, Writer

"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity"

Nick Faldo, Athlete

"I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot"

Al Unser, Athlete

"It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle"

Matt Dillon, Actor

"Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young"

Augustus, Royalty

"When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz"

Joe Simon

"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer"

Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity

"Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone"

David Brooks, Politician

"I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves"

Mick Fleetwood, Musician

"As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

"Those whom the gods love grow young"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old"

Mark Twain, Author

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Youth is wasted on the young"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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