Quotes About A Young Man

#1. Even as a young man, Sawtooth had a hard time talking to women. Since moving to Out-to-Sea, he's become tight-lipped as an oyster. But he can feel the worlds pearling on his tongue: Girl, you are my moon. You are the tidal pull that keeps time marching forward.

Karen Russell

#2. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!

Richard G. Scott

#4. Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#5. Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.

Steve Martin

#6. It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

Peter Shaffer

#7. If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

Walter Damrosch

#8. How slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man's revenue.

William Shakespeare

#9. A tyrant needs no real reason for what he does, Quellion said. He was a young man, but not foolish. At times, he sounded like other men Spook had known. Wise men. The difference, then, was one of extremity. Or, perhaps, timing?

Brandon Sanderson

#10. The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

Ed Asner

#11. When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.

Alain

#12. As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

Martin McGuinness

#13. Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

Robert Jordan

#14. On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

Mose Allison

#16. As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

Om Puri

#17. I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

John F. Kerry

#18. Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it was hard to be on the road because you go through relationships because your girlfriend kinda got tired of you being gone.

Kevin Nealon

#19. I've got a young man who works for me who says you don't need to discover your dreams - you need to recover them.

Dave Ramsey

#20. I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#21. It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is.

Hillary Clinton

#22. My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Joe Paterno

#23. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.

William Shakespeare

#24. He is perhaps fifteen - not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way - and he walks with the energy and indifference of one who possesses the luxury of youth but not yet the experience to appreciate its value or evanescence.

John Burley

#25. When a young man talks to an old man, it is always a gift.

Avi

#26. A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

Bruno Rossi

#27. 'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

Seth Gabel

#28. You shouldn't describe your underwear to a young man to whom you are not related. It isn't delicate. - Bill Eversleigh

Agatha Christie

#29. If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

James A. Michener

#30. All he did from freshman year through sophomore was react
sneer, laugh, dismiss, find fault, demean
a young man's version of critical thinking.

Toni Morrison

#31. [As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

Billy Graham

#32. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.

Gene Wolfe

#33. When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

Luke Rhinehart

#34. If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

R. Kelly

#35. I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.

Tom Brokaw

#36. A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#37. I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Austin O'Malley

#39. Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

Maria Edgeworth

#40. When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Robertson Davies

#41. I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Bob Dylan

#42. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.

Jane Austen

#43. The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.

Meir Soloveichik

#44. So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

Roxanne St. Claire

#45. what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

George Eliot

#46. Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality
Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Oscar Wilde

#47. Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world - in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.

William B. Irvine

#48. I am, I believe, a young man on whom a grand joke is being played, fated to live one century, perhaps a second, perhaps a third, only to be scrubbed and rescrubbed from the record, to exit, if I ever do, as if I'd never existed at all.

Daniel Kraus

#49. Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

J.R. Moehringer

#50. Now, there's a young man who looks like a real pedant, for you!

Victor Hugo

#51. I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.

Emeril Lagasse

#52. And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.

John Connolly

#53. When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

David Morrissey

#54. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

Bill Hicks

#55. As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Tom Hanks

#56. We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

Loretta Lynch

#57. I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Courtney B. Vance

#58. It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

Alice-Leone Moats

#59. A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

Daniel Radcliffe

#60. Behind them, there was a massive bang, and they all turned as a young man welled and dropped something to the ground, which smoked and hissed.
"My Sensor exploded", he growled.
"I think we can assume some very serious demonic activity," Edgar said.

Cassandra Clare

#61. I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

Nick Offerman

#62. It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Don Meyer

#63. I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think.

Sergio Martinez

#64. I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

E.B. White

#65. Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Lord Chesterfield

#66. When I was a kid, a young man, I was terribly concerned about getting my philosophy together. But as I've done my grieving I've given up on that and settled on a pretty simple deal: The object of life is to gain wisdom. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Elizabeth Harper Neeld

#67. For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

Vita Sackville-West

#68. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Winston S. Churchill

#69. I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#70. Time passes quickly, Great King. If I don't use the strength and energy I now possess as a young man, old age will arrive too soon and I will feel deep regret.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#71. There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Ana Castillo

#72. In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years

Oscar Wilde

#73. I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

Jamie Cullum

#74. I would not take a young man to a lock-hospital to knock the hankering after women out of him, but into my soul to see the devils that were rending it.

Leo Tolstoy

#75. I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Kevin Bacon

#76. I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

Jane Austen

#77. You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Robertson Davies

#78. In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

Frank Wedekind

#79. Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.

Jack Kirby

#80. My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Cory Booker

#81. My dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so

Jane Austen

#82. Nana never remarried, but not for lack of offers. She was resolute: it was one thing to be a young man's darling, she said, but she wasn't going to be an old man's slave.

Kate Morton

#83. A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: "Go."

Lottie Moon

#84. As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Otto Dix

#85. As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#86. It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

Marvin J. Ashton

#87. A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

D.H. Lawrence

#88. I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Hedda Hopper

#89. He will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

Philippa Gregory

#90. I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

Chiune Sugihara

#91. My first car was a Holden Commodore station wagon. I can't remember much more about it than that - it was coffee colored, and I think it was four cylinders, so it was really quite weak, but very safe for a young man to be driving.

Antony Starr

#92. I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

Jesse Metcalfe

#93. I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Alexander Lukashenko

#94. I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Wendell Berry

#95. You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Markus Zusak

#96. A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

Colleen Houck

#97. You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Dora Russell

#98. When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Robert Barnes

#99. Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

Paul Haggis

#100. WHEN HE WAS a young man Billy Beane could beat anyone at anything.

Michael Lewis