Young Quotes

"Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young"

"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God"

"I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s"

D. L. Hughley, Actor

"It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!"

Catherine Bell, Model

"It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product"

Norman Jewison, Director

"When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing"

James McAvoy, Actor

"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"

Adam Pascal, Actor

"We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live"

Abdoulaye Wade, Statesman

"Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant"

Wayne Coyne, Musician

"As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool"

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity

"I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids"

Chely Wright, Musician

"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life"

Ruth Ann Minner, Politician

"This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in"

Tina Brown, Editor

"People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it"

Steve Carell, Actor

"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things"

Terry Gilliam, Director

"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution"

Van Jones, Activist

"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here"

Zoe Lofgren, Politician

"So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage"

Jared Leto, Actor

"I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired"

Janis Ian, Musician

"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"You can't put off being young until you retire"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people"

Tia Carrere, Actress

"I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests"

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer

"Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back"

Lee Majors, Actor

"The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me"

Yuan T. Lee, Scientist

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