Young Quotes

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"How young can you die of old age?"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it"

Roger McGough, Poet

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature"

Dave Barry, Author

"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly"

Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist

"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state"

William James, Philosopher

"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

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