Young Quotes

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards"

Anatole France, Novelist

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive"

Jessamyn West, Author

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old"

Michael Caine, Actor

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business"

Washington Irving, Writer

"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you"

Mia Hamm, Athlete

"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good"

John Barrymore, Actor

"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"This young century will be liberty's century"

George W. Bush, President

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt"

Herbert Hoover, President

"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

"For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be exciting and wonderful"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"Whom the gods love dies young"

Menander, Poet

"Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

"I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun"

Britney Spears, Musician

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges"

Barack Obama, President

"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

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