Young Quotes

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

~ Bill Kurtis

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

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

~ Lindsey Vonn

When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.

~ Kendall Jenner

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

~ Craig Sager

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

~ Gherman Titov

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

~ David Ayer

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

~ Shirley Maclaine

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

~ Gary Numan

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

~ Russell Tovey

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

~ Evo Morales

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

~ Orison Swett Marden

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

~ Paul Sweeney

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

~ Pauline Kael

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

~ Andy Rooney

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

~ Ashley Montagu

'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.

~ Nene Leakes

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

~ Ann Brashares

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

~ Luciano Pavarotti

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

~ Trey Anastasio

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

~ Oscar Wilde

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

~ Lucille Ball

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

~ Bill Gates

Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.

~ Tom Frieden

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

~ Bob Corker

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

~ David Lindsay-Abaire

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

~ Joan Jett

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

~ Roger Daltrey

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

~ Carine Roitfeld

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

~ Maria Sharapova

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

~ Patty Duke

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

~ Brandon Boyd

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

~ David Lachapelle

Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.

~ Jo Brand

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

~ Mercy Otis Warren