Young Quotes

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous

Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein

To keep your thinking young, stay curious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Old age is like everything else.
To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes,
packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners,
and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to
you that in a single second your whole life could change.
- Annette Funicello

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
- Toby Keith

One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley

It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young
must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
- Abigail Van Buren

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
- Lenny Wilkens

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief,
is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Who would ever think that so much went on
in the soul of a young girl?
- Anne Frank

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping
young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the
ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
- Walt Disney

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison

Those who love deeply never grow old;
they may die of old age,
but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
Life is your playground.
Fashion grand castles and sweeping boulevards,
defeat fire-breathing dragons,
leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
- Susie Bright

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion,
give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn
up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
- James D. Watson

If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist
to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.
It keeps him young.
- Konrad Lorenz

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young,
the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
- John Ciardi

Every young man would do well to remember that all
successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
- Terence

So my father was a person who never lied to me.
If I had a question, he answered it.
I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
- Nick Cannon

It is only after years of preparation that the young
artist should touch color -
not color used descriptively,
that is, but as a means of personal expression.
- Henri Matisse

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of
the hygiene of older people,
and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
- Logan P. Smith

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study
of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
- Clyde Tombaugh

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing
up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
- Peter Medawar

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

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker,
you are still a dreamer, and will one time know,
and feel, that your life is but a dream.
- Donald G. Mitchell

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern

To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers
when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

In the world today, a young lady who does not have
a college education just is not educated.
- Walter Annenberg

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope,
to love - and to put its trust in life.
- Joseph Conrad

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.
- James Cagney

He hits it long.
His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball.
That's where he's getting his power from.
He's young and has great elasticity.
- Nick Faldo

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I cried on my 18th birthday.
I thought 17 was such a nice age.
You're young enough to get away with things,
but you're old enough, too.
- Liv Tyler

Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands.
That's probably why they get along so well.
- Jonathan Carroll

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

But I'd have to say Young Frankenstein,
which I can watch forever.
- Jason Schwartzman

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy,
except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
- Margaret Sackville

There are relatively few role models for young people.
We are in a society that is ruled by men.
- Catherine Deneuve

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now,
by the way, in part because of national-security issues.
A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
- Tom Brokaw

I was different from most young conductors today.
- Kurt Masur

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child,
now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
- Mary Pickford

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth,
would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
- Jean Genet

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might
say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character
who'd just blown someones head off!
- Dominic Monaghan

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats,
which I accept and bless them in return,
a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
- Lionel Blue

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it,
just as some men and boys do.
- Katherine Dunn

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.
- Robert Conrad

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
- Nadia Comaneci

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