Young Quotes

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

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

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

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

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

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

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

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

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

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

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.

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

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.

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.

But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.

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.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.