Best Young Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.”

“When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.”

“When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.”

Young Parent Goes On My Family Towns West Texas Circus Cemetery Disneyland West Texas

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.”

Young Stage Crisis Marketing Quarters Schemes Stages Of Life Life Crisis

Author:Jill Lepore

“I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.”

Want Years Two Moving Young Strong Pay Wonderful Willing Son Blessing Taxes Killing Sake Credit Compromise Good Life Young Sons

Author:Kristin Lehman

“Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.”

People Should Young Guy Fronts Musician My Family Laughed Young Guys Stuttering

Author:Kurt Masur

“In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”

America Young Pieces Heard South Heroic Misunderstanding Symphony Conductor South America

Author:Kurt Masur

“Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.”

Young Football College Majors Knees Injured College Football

Author:Lee Majors

“I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.”

Young Dakota

Author:Jodie Foster

“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.”

Children Stills Young Stage Involved Adults Young Adult My Children Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Children Stories Age Young Groups Adults Young Adult Small Child

Author:Margaret Mahy

“A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.”

Feels Feelings Young Fun Alive Youth Huge Behave

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.”

Want Happens Kids Young Opportunity Brother My Brother

Author:Pedro Martinez

“We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.”

People Young Party Growing Focused

Author:Peter MacKay

“The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.”

People Wells Young Strong Nations Enjoy Justice Powerful Quality India Mature Quality Of Life High Quality

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.”

Kids Young Significant

Author:Jodie Foster

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Believe Important Helping Jobs Young Artist Position Lessons Believe In You Important Lessons

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.”

Ifs Should Done Wanted Young Speak Class Should Have Grandma My Grandma

Author:Scotty McCreery

“Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.”

Want Mean Eye Young Causes Easy Boys Feet Stores Toys Bruises Tantrums

Author:Jodie Foster

“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.”

Ifs Knows Persons Enough Young Desire Actors Personality Chosen Burning Burning Desire

Author:Jodie Foster

“Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.”

Wells Young Defense Quarterback

Author:Steve Mariucci

“At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.”

Stills Jobs Young Creative Security Son Pursue Creative Work Young Sons

Author:Chris Noth

“Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.”

Kids Young Western Never Ending

Author:Franco Nero

“I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.”

Past Young Growing Stage Months Adults Shoes Young Adult Manuals

Author:Graham Nelson

“I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.”

Young Laughing Stupid Awkward Stupid Things Endearing

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.”

Art Said Young Artist Study Training Developing Crucial Art History Young Artists Scholastics History And Art

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.”

Young Actors Acting Havens Young Actors

Author:Lucas Neff

“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.”

Men Made Young Prayer Meetings Young Man Necks Knives Fifteen Scandal Kneeling Prayer Meeting

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.”

Wanted Young Choices Mum

Author:Denise Van Outen

“I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.”

Ends Young Born Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Ehud Olmert

“I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.”

Young Novel Adults Young Adult

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.”

People Ifs Feels Helping Pain Young Class Cry Screws Screw Ups Disruptive Arses

Author:Jamie Oliver

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Young Mother Chance Pay Four Taxes Prison Horrible Four Years Contributors

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.”

People Want Wells Problem Young Successful Parasites Hangers

Author:Mike Oldfield

“We're all idealistic when young.”

Young Idealistic

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“I have had young fascinations but never love.”

Young Fascination

Author:Rita Ora

“I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.”

Thinking Young Mythology Ran

Author:Tea Obreht

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

Thinking Feels Should Kind Age Form Young Taken Wonderful Encouragement Artistic Endeavor Scope Attempting Young Writers Inexperience

Author:Tea Obreht

“I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.”

Men Running School Young Football High School Track Work Out Broke Ran Young Man Fragile

Author:Danny Pudi

“Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.”

Young Girl Acting Cathartic

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.”

Kids Young Issues Weight

Author:Josh Peck

“I was so young when I was born.”

Young Born Profound

Author:George Harrison

“When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.”

Ifs Art Young Used Practice Etc Martial Arts Scholar Mixtures Theoretical Karate Samurai Kung Fu Aikido Bushido

Author:William C. Brown

“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.”

People Thinking Has Beens Might Young Careers Crisis Ambitious Hung Might Have Been Premature Misplaced Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.”

Humans Young Race Education Waste Smart Human Race

Book:Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

Source: Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

“There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.”

Men Heart Able Young Mistake Education Break Air Angry Young Man Sand Fists Learning From Mistakes

Author:Billy Joel

“I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.”

Humans Country Young Born Feminine Other Countries Masculine Masculine And Feminine

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.”

Writing Firsts Mean Problem Bigs Young Advice Personality Being True Temper Academy Pretentious Big Problems Fortresses Young Writers

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.”

Giving Writing Heart Long Use Age Young Secret Sun Path Sky Advice Wind Blue Trade Paint Forgotten Dust Faithful Realms Shore Once Upon A Time Caress Young Writers

Author:Brian Jacques

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