Young Quotes

I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

Start young. Throw your arms around ladies knees. As you get older it will get more interesting.

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Adron! Don’t you hurt him. (Kiara) I’m not going to hurt him, Mom. I’m going to kill him. (Young Adron)

Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

One of the greatest ways to stay young is to have little kids.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is.

I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.