Top 100 Quotes About Being Young
#1. Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.
Katharine Whitehorn
#2. Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
Twiggy
#3. Thus it was quickly decided that Pitry - being young, cheerful, and not in the room at the time - would be the best man for the job.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#4. As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.
Ruby Dee
#6. It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.
Dolly Parton
#7. When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.
Martin Amis
#8. He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
Cory Doctorow
#9. Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Paul Auster
#10. We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.
Taissa Farmiga
#11. I just go out there and play. I don't know if it's being young and not getting calls, or some other circumstances. I'm just trying to make a play.
Kevin Love
#12. I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.
Tabare Vazquez
#13. She was drunk, and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself.
Sarah J. Maas
#14. You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.
Scott Lynch
#15. With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models.
Laura Mullen
#16. I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.
Robin Marantz Henig
#17. Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young.
Terry Pratchett
#18. It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible way, "on the shelf".
John Le Carre
#19. The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an equally foreign and exotic location at some later point in life. But this is rarely true.
Hanya Yanagihara
#20. Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience ... when I was young I wasn't scared about anything
Thierry Henry
#21. The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow
Loosely as cannon-smoke ...
Is a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can't come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere.
Philip Larkin
#22. So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
John Mayer
#24. We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
Joseph Goebbels
#25. Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
Karl Pilkington
#26. I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
Solange Knowles
#27. I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that's odd, isn't it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?
David Foster Wallace
#28. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.
James Joyce
#30. One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#31. I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.
Scott Brooks
#32. I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.
Khoi Vinh
#33. Hirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself.
Stephen King
#34. Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.
Stephen Chbosky
#35. Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.
Lights
#37. Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.
Peter Lindbergh
#38. Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.
Justin Bieber
#39. I'm certainly never going to say that someone is prettier than Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but someone who would make her crazy for being young and good-looking.
David Mandel
#40. I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore ... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.
Katherine Center
#41. Being young is having the world by the tail
Growing up is tracing it to your own posterior
W.M. Driscoll
#42. Being young is hard. I was so isolated and alienated when I was young. All I wanted was a friend. I want the world to be different for young Auties than it was for me.
Jeanette Purkis
#43. Being young, and having your mom come to school with the laced-up hats and the crazy outfits are definitely moments to remember.
Ciara
#44. There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.
Jena Malone
#45. Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.
Clive James
#46. I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privileged than others, but that hasn't anything to do with being young
P.D. James
#47. Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.
Russell Brand
#48. You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin
#49. By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
Jane Austen
#50. When I'm with all my little ones, people with grown or teenage children always tell me, "You're going to miss this." I have to assume they are talking about my children being young and not the conversation I'm having with them, because I am not going to miss people giving me advice about children.
Jim Gaffigan
#51. One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.
Terry Teachout
#52. And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
#53. More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
Meredith Baxter
#54. What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?
Fran Lebowitz
#55. It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb,
It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.
Kendrick Lamar
#56. I'm just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.
Stewart Lee
#57. I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.
Jermain Defoe
#58. Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Orson Scott Card
#59. And she was old, too. For a woman being old just means not being young, and all the youth had been worked out of her before it had really even set in.
Marilynne Robinson
#60. I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
Audre Lorde
#61. Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.
Cole Hamels
#62. The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny ...
Mick Rock
#63. I didn't know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as easily as young ones. I had certainly seen older people do some very foolish things.
Catherine M. Wilson
#64. I spent a lot of time feeling scandalized, and I loved it. There is nothing more fun than being young and judgmental.
Mara Wilson
#65. Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world
Melissa McCarthy
#66. I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
Amy Grant
#67. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.
Kim Swift
#68. You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.
Diyar Harraz
#69. Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen.
Drake
#71. I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
Harold Brodkey
#72. They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.
Ray Brown
#73. It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers, she teased.
Sharon M. Draper
#74. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.
Jean Rhys
#76. When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.
Helen Mirren
#77. The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.
Pedro Pascal
#78. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
Ernie Banks
#79. I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!
Julie Burchill
#80. I remember being young in the 1960s ... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#81. I have to stop being young. I have to get jaded. I have to be cynical. I have to stop speaking. I have to be invisible. He likes things that don't really exist.
Sarahbeth Purcell
#82. There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
Mike Tyson
#83. What can ever equal the memory of being young together?
Michael Stein
#85. That's the worst thing about being young. You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised
Tarryn Fisher
#86. And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?" Master
Laini Taylor
#87. I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era.
Pattie Boyd
#88. Part of being young is making mistakes.
Nikki Reed
#89. I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.
Adrian Beltre
#90. It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
Matt Dillon
#91. When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
Richard Hell
#92. We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?
Niall Horan
#93. I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old-or being young for that matter.
Katharine Hepburn
#94. Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.
Mary Quant
#95. Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.
Melissa McCarthy
#96. The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
Ezra Klein
#97. Looking young and attractive with makeup is the next best thing to actually being young and attractive. After all, a woman only has a few years where she really is youthful, but she can wear foundation makeup til the day she dies (and even after!).
Linda Sunshine
#99. Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
Lauryn Hill
#100. I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I feel like everything is going to happen then. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I'm always one of the first ones to say, "Let's try that."
Mario Sorrenti
