Young Quotes

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back"

Joe Dante, Director

"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war"

John Edward Christopher Hill, Historian

"And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls"

Lindsay Wagner, Actress

"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature"

David Amram, Composer

"The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore"

Jason Segel, Actor

"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then"

Erin Gray, Actress

"My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me"

Forest Whitaker, Actor

"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy"

Diane Lane, Actress

"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending"

Compay Segundo, Musician

"You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know"

Jeff Buckley, Musician

"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old"

John Edward Christopher Hill, Historian

"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!"

James Payn, Novelist

"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her"

Judy Davis, Actress

"Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission"

Mark Kirk, Politician

"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young"

Henry Seidel Canby, Critic

"I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

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