Young Quotes

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.

I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk.

A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads... Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.