Young Quotes

"Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West"

"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young"

George Takei, Actor

"For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age"

Debbie Gibson, Musician

"That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful"

Frank Frazetta, Artist

"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together"

Edmund White, Novelist

"It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run"

Jeff Buckley, Musician

"These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another"

Joan Sutherland, Musician

"I'd never been published when I was young"

Jack Vance, Author

"It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

"It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else"

Ismail Merchant, Producer

"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois"

Jacques Marquette, Clergyman

"The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill"

George Plimpton, Journalist

"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge"

Esai Morales, Actor

"Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit"

Don Johnson, Actor

"If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want"

Brian Williams, Journalist

"All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

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