Young Quotes

"We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of"

"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people"

Bud Selig, Celebrity

"If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do"

Anna Neagle, Actress

"When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process"

Anita Desai, Novelist

"So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work"

Ali MacGraw, Actress

"When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

"Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on"

Aisha Tyler, Actress

"Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places"

Alessandro Del Piero, Athlete

"It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding"

Alice Hamilton, Scientist

"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess"

Kobe Bryant, Athlete

"I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any"

Syd Barrett, Musician

"In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives"

Brian Moore, Novelist

"I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation"

Etta James, Musician

"We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age"

Viola Davis, Actress

"Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does"

Viola Davis, Actress

"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults"

Melanie Klein, Psychologist

"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory"

Douglass North, Economist

"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools"

Johannes Rau, Statesman

"I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?"

Bill Wyman, Musician

"Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it"

Bill Wyman, Musician

"In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to"

John Walters, Musician

"Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential"

John Walters, Musician

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