Young Quotes

"It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject"

"Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness"

James Welch

"There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team"

Jerry Rice, Athlete

"The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old"

David Coverdale, Musician

"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for"

Christopher Parker, Actor

"Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies"

Chad Lowe, Actor

"Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care"

Sam Brownback, Politician

"When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok"

Warwick Davis, Actor

"I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix"

Ron Rice, Athlete

"When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it"

Roger Andrew Taylor, Musician

"The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics"

Richard Rorty, Philosopher

"It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible"

Lucien Bouchard, Lawyer

"My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke"

Mark Warner, Politician

"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange"

Dizzy Gillespie, Musician

"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'"

Daisy Donovan, Actress

"I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

"In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight"

Jon Voight, Actor

"Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?"

Storm Jameson, Writer

"I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick"

Peter O'Toole, Actor

"Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me"

Tatyana Ali, Actress

"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his"

George Dennison Prentice, Editor

"We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father"

Anne C. Weisberg

"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush"

John Spratt, Politician

"Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group"

Harold Evans, Journalist

"There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity"

John Knowles, Novelist

"Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are"

Tony Danza, Actor

"Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me"

Franco Nero, Actor

"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young"

Chely Wright, Musician

"I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men"

George Gilder, Writer

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