Young Quotes

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.

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

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

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.