Young Quotes

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

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.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

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

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.