Young Quotes

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

~ S.e. Hinton

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.

~ Nathan Fillion

To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

This is one of those moments when I wish I could be young forever. Not just stop time for a second, but for an eternity. The old paradox that youth is wasted on the young is not true for us. Neither I nor my friends take our youth for granted. In fact, all of the young people I know are all too aware that someday soon time and gravity won’t be on their side anymore. And there’s nothing we can do about it. So the young do the only thing they can do. They live and they love and they dance and they sing, they dream and they scheme, they ponder and they plan. Like there’s no tomorrow. For tomorrow brings us one day closer to the inevitable and one day further from the impossible. And being young is all about achieving the impossible. Or at least believing you can. The old mistake our denial for ignorance, our immaturity for irresponsibility. We understand the rules of life, we just don’t want to play by them. Not yet. Not today. Not tonight.Because tonight is a good night to be young and alive.

~ A.j. Compton

Drowning in the majesty of the constellations is a reminder that the universe was here long before us, and it will be here long after we’re gone. When our bones become nothing but ash and earth, the world will keep on spinning. People will die, cry, love, and live as if we never were. But we are now. And that’s all that matters.In this moment, we are.Nothing but a boy and a girl. On the cusp of something greater than ourselves.Entering into the unknown and hoping we make it out the other side.With a strong sense of ourselves and only a faint idea of who we want to be.We are what we are. And we. are. now.Young, free, alive.Here, together, loved.

~ A.j. Compton

Being young is all about achieving the impossible. Or at least believing you can. The old mistake our denial for ignorance, our immaturity for irresponsibility. We understand the rules of life, we just don’t want to play by them. Not yet. Not today. Not tonight.Because tonight is a good night to be young and alive.

~ A.j. Compton

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

~ Jenny Han

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

~ Amit Kalantri

What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from how it tasted at 30.

~ Ravindra Shukla

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

~ Vera Nazarian

It's clear that politeness to one's elders can't always be justified on the basis of the elder's superior wisdom. It's just that it's not attractive to see a young person answering an older person back.

~ Zoë Heller

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

~ J.b. Priestley

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

~ Teju Cole

The people who don't give you a standing ovation for the hurdles you cross are just afraid that you might win the race. They do not cheer you but they sit, lurking on the sidelines, biting their fingernails hoping you will stumble before the end. They secretly wish you will never win this race. But watch out for them, they will be the firstto stand and cheer you when you stand on that podium of success.

~ Crystal Evans

It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc from a showroom when we wanted wheels, and when it ran out of petrol we'd get another one. We'd change cars the way I change socks. We'd sleep in different mansions every night, going to new houses instead of putting new sheets on the beds. Life would be one long party.Yes, that had been the dream.

~ John Marsden

So, is it too young for you?He leaned over, lips coming to mine, arms pulling me into a kiss, soft at first, tentative, then ... wow. The guy could kiss. I finally had to pull back to catch my breath.Good answer? he said.Yep. You like them y

~ Kelley Armstrong

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

~ Winston Groom

You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone.

~ Tessa Dare

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

~ Steve Maraboli

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

~ Elizabeth Berg

I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I’m very fond of my old brass alarm clock. Once I tied a wasp tot the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on top, where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off. I always wake up before the alarm goes, so I got to watch.

~ Iain Banks

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.

~ Laurel A. Rockefeller

If you keep an active life, you stay young.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

~ Nancy E. Turner

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky. That is a youthful question too, dear reader, very youthful, but may the Lord put it more frequently into your heart!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.Instead I had Hell.

~ John Marsden

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

~ Peggy Toney Horton

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.

~ Peggy Toney Horton

Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Why--? he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, when they're so lovely--She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smiled. She said nothing. Then half consciously she echoed his question without a meaning in her echo, Why?He was dashed for a moment. It seemed to him that she refused to help him. And he wanted her to help him. Why should she not take the weight off his shoulders and give him what he longed for --assurance, certainty? Because she too was deformed like the rest of them? He looked down at her hands. They were strong hands; fine hands; but if it were a question, he thought, watching the fingers curl slightly, of my children, of my possession, it would be one rip down the belly; or teeth in the soft fur of the throat. We cannot help each other, he thought, we are all deformed. Yet, disagreeable as it was to him to remove her from the eminence upon which he placed her, perhaps she was right, he thought, and we who make idols of other people, who endow this man, that woman, with power to lead us, only add to the deformity, and stoop ourselves.

~ Virginia Woolf

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

~ Joseph Devlin

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

~ Krishnamurti

The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

~ Chelsey Philpot

The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia.

~ Antal Szerb

When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as they discharged it into the indoor environment at high altitude.

~ Steven Magee

They were young and gay and the femininity of their teenage years had only recently hardened into the muscle of a competitive sexual economy. Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles.

~ Christopher Bollen

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

~ Barack Obama