Top 78 Margaret Young Quotes
#1. When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
Margaret Atwood
#2. A lot of people call you a feminist painter."
"What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?
Margaret Atwood
#3. But really, he told himself. There are just some people who don't seem like they ever could have been young. It's like trying to imagine my grandparents as little kids. Or - like the guy who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. No way he was ever young.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#4. I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems.
Margaret Thatcher
#5. Silver hidden in the gold,
Young man hidden in the old,
Laughing lord with weeping eyes,
Bring king and ring before sunrise!
-Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest
Margaret Lovett
#6. But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.
Margaret Fuller
#7. And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
Margaret Spellings
#8. My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.
Margaret Cho
#9. Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
Margaret Millar
#10. We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.
Margaret Whiting
#11. Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it. The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time. You have to go slowly with them.
Margaret Atwood
#12. With the young writers now it's F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.
Margaret Atwood
#14. intrigues of love are unfolding as they do among the young, and as they do as well among the snails on the lettuce and the shiny green beetles that plague the kale. Murmurings, the shrug of a shoulder, the step forward, the step back. Toby
Margaret Atwood
#15. In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
Margaret Mead
#16. The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown ... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
Margaret Mead
#17. Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Margaret Mahy
#18. Young girls have such sweet tooths. Or is that sweet teeth?
Margaret Atwood
#19. My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
Margaret Mitchell
#20. But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to
about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#21. The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
Margaret Atwood
#22. It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.
Margaret Way
#23. I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
Margaret Atwood
#24. But sometimes I see instead the young girl's face I once spent so much time rearranging and deploring, drowned and floating just beneath my present face,
Margaret Atwood
#25. Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Margaret McMullan
#26. What possesses them, these young girls with a talent for self-immolation?
Margaret Atwood
#27. I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.
Margaret Cho
#28. You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
Margaret Atwood
#29. Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville
#30. When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
Anthony Holden
#31. I recall how I suspected at the time that my young friend was indulging in her first bout of calf love.
Margaret Westhaven
#32. Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Ann Courtney
#33. Whose memories are these? Who speaks to her of this gentle time that she is too young to have known herself? There was hardship then, certainly, but not hearts chained and heavy with fear. Who is it that laughs with aged lightheartedness and suggests that this is still a place of promise?
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
#34. 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.
Margaret Mahy
#35. My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.
Margaret D. Klein
#36. I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
Margaret Mahy
#37. He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.
Margaret Atwood
#39. A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.
Margaret Chan
#40. And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Margaret Cavendish
#42. Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.
Margaret Mahy
#43. 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.
Margaret Mahy
#44. He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington.
Margaret Widdemer
#45. He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.
Margaret Weis
#46. The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time.
Margaret Atwood
#48. Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long usage.
Margaret Mitchell
#49. Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
Bring terror to the young and old.
O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.
Margaret Walker
#50. I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#51. Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
Margaret Mead
#52. As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak. Her
Margaret Mitchell
#53. There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
Margaret Mead
#54. Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
Margaret Mead
#55. The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#56. By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.
Margaret Bourke-White
#57. John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.
Edward Leigh
#58. She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.
Margaret Atwood
#59. The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#60. Recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gentle kindness many would admire, and which is worth so much
Margaret Atwood
#61. When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
#63. Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
Margaret Mead
#64. You young people don't appreciate things, she'd say. You don't know what we had to go through, just to get you where you are. Look at him, slicing up the carrots. Don't you know how many women's lives, how many women's bodies, the tanks had to roll over just to get that far?
Margaret Atwood
#65. We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
Margaret Atwood
#67. I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.
Margaret Atwood
#68. Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Margaret Mead
#69. I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
Margaret Cho
#71. For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
#72. Oblivion is increasingly attractive to the young, and even to the middle-aged, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking can even begin to solve the problem?
Margaret Atwood
#73. Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan
Margaret Laurence
#75. The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.
Margaret Heffernan
#76. I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#77. So gloriously confident, so new to life you could conquer the world.
Margaret Way
#78. Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood
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