Young Quotes

"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them"

Sherwood Anderson, Writer

"I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!"

Devon Werkheiser, Actor

"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home"

Georg Solti, Musician

"People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time"

Joss Stone, Musician

"I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model"

Brian Littrell, Musician

"Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young"

Jarvis Cocker, Musician

"In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will"

Robert Doisneau, Photographer

"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical"

Keith Haring, Artist

"We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives"

Charles Hamilton Houston, Lawyer

"We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age"

Bruce Jenner, Athlete

"I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore"

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress

"If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept"

James Collins, Athlete

"When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing"

Erik Satie, Composer

"It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"When I was a young man, I had a mentor on women and he said when you meet a woman that you think you like, don't ask her for a drink. Take her out for a bowl of soup. Because a woman who can enjoy a bowl of soup is bound to be more interesting"

Art Cooper

"So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time"

Andrew McCarthy, Actor

"It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game"

Tim Hudson

"I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool"

Bill Kurtis, Journalist

"I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly"

Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity

"I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird"

Tiffeny Milbrett, Athlete

"The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie"

Taye Diggs, Actor

"When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director"

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in"

Peter Medawar, Scientist

"I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print"

Tina Brown, Editor

"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything"

John Hunter

"I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself"

Hugh Downs, Entertainer

"I lost my parents when I was fairly young"

Craig T. Nelson, Actor

"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be"

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer

"I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world"

Bobby Short, Musician

"From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea"

Justin Sane, Musician

"Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing"

Barbara Cook, Musician

"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge"

Susie Bright, Writer

"I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor"

Lauren Graham, Actress

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