Best young & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Mahy

“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.”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“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.”

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Author:Brian Jacques

“My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.”

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Author:Ridley Pearson

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.”

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Author:James Rollins

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.”

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Author:Melissa Rauch

“Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.”

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Book:Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

Source: Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

“Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.”

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Author:Susan Wojcicki

“As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.”

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Author:Chely Wright

“At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

“As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.”

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Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.”

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Author:Debbie Macomber

“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.”

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Author:Olivia Williams

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.”

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Author:Elliott Yamin

“My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.”

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Author:Valorie Curry

“When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.”

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Author:Reese Hoffa

“The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.”

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Author:William Jackson

“I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.”

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Author:Faith Prince

“A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.”

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Author:Janet Jackson

“Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.”

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Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.”

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Author:Black Francis

“You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.”

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Author:Brad Gilbert

“From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.”

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Author:Lara Pulver

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

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Book:The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky”

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Author:Richard Hammond

“I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.”

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Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30”

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Author:Robbie Savage

“I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.”

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Author:Wolf Kahn

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

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Author:Max Planck

“I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.”

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Author:Konrad Adenauer

“I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young.”

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Author:Anderson Silva

“Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.”

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Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”

Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.”

“White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.”

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Book:The Lily of the Valley

Source: The Lily of the Valley

“I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.”

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Author:David First

“I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.”

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Author:Stefon Harris

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