Young Quotes

"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare"

"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely"

Brian Molko, Musician

"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me"

Maya Lin, Architect

"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got"

Chris Brown, Musician

"The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game"

John Cleese, Actor

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"Golf, like measles, should be caught young"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country"

Horace Greeley, Editor

"Go west, young man"

Horace Greeley, Editor

"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"Young people want you to be real with them"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience"

Imran Khan, Politician

"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was"

Maria Callas, Musician

"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are"

Cary Grant, Actor

"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that"

Sophia Bush, Actress

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