Young Quotes

"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds"

"Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another"

Wanda Jackson, Musician

"There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, Novelist

"So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living"

Lyle Lovett, Musician

"It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career"

Michael Douglas, Actor

"Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all"

Gale Sayers, Athlete

"I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me"

Simon Cowell, Entertainer

"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading"

Richard Lugar, Politician

"These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score"

Elmer Bernstein, Composer

"There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young"

George Thorogood, Musician

"I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town"

Lesley Gore, Musician

"We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother"

Francis Maude, Politician

"Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time"

Miranda Otto, Actress

"Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever"

Rosa DeLauro, Politician

"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college"

Roma Downey, Actress

"I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated"

Louie Anderson, Comedian

"I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm"

Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity

"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me"

Tony Conrad, Artist

"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people"

Kim Jong Il, Leader

"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club"

Richard Gough

"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer"

Miroslav Vitous, Musician

"People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female"

Queen Latifah, Musician

"I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21"

Monica Keena, Actress

"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not"

Joseph Bologna, Actor

"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'"

Mako, Actor

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