Top 100 Quotes About The Young
#1. Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: 'What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. Within twelve hours of the Sunday Herald hitting the streets, Golgotham suddenly found itself besieged by the young, bored, and semi-affluent.
Nancy A. Collins
#3. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer.
Michel Houellebecq
#4. As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker
#5. By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.
Auliq Ice
#6. Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was,
Larry McMurtry
#7. The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.
Hilary Mantel
#8. It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.
Jeanne Cordova
#9. No one wanted to be responsible for telling the young and innocent Princess about the things a man and a woman could do together. No one wanted to take away my innocence. Well I was now 112 years old, I figured I was old enough to learn.
Laura Greenwood
#10. Solus walked over to the young brown-haired man and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, ignoring the look of panic he received in return. "You can call me Solus." His golden eyes trailed meaningfully down the mortal's body before he added, softly, "I've been told it's easier to scream.
Nenia Campbell
#11. An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
Carl Jung
#12. That's what the prom is - St. Patrick's Day for the young.
Tim Tharp
#13. Joke:
What did the young ladybug learn from her dance teacher in Ladybug Finishing School?
Curtsy no flirtsy, Stand Tall not small, A lady must be a lady at the Ladybug Ball
Heather Wolf
#14. Admit only your victories until you have hooked their interest, then you draw them closer and admit the sort of failings that reflect well on a fellow, sentimental failings: that was the theory of courtship the young master had formulated...
Claire Robertson
#15. And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
Gregory Maguire
#16. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Anne Rice
#17. Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.
George Jones
#18. It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney
#19. When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
Rita Mae Brown
#21. To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'
Joan Kirner
#22. The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.
P.T. Barnum
#23. Life is so simple when you're young, though of course that's not what it feels like to the young.
Cornelia Funke
#24. You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer.
Bedrich Smetana
#25. To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
Umberto Boccioni
#26. I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. ~ A taste of Heaven on earth!" "THE ENCHANTING LEGENDS OF SHILOH MANSION:The Young King!" ~
DeBorrah K. Ogans
#29. In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.
Theodore Roosevelt
#30. It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Harold Macmillan
#31. The rain lashed down upon Brentford and Pope Alexander VI raised his massive arm and pointed towards Archroy and the young priest. 'You, I will make an example of,' he roared. 'You will know the exquisite agonies of lingering death.' Archroy thumbed his nose. 'Balls,' said he.
Robert Rankin
#32. Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.
Nana Awere Damoah
#33. And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?
Chester Bowles
#34. The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
Louisa May Alcott
#35. I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.
Anna Chancellor
#36. For the young Gaels of Ireland
Are the lads that drive me mad,
For half their words need footnotes
And half their rhymes are bad.
Arthur Guiterman
#37. Perhaps he should have been annoyed at the young man's tone, but it was only the truth.
Brandon Sanderson
#38. You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you ... all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them.
- Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace
Brian Jacques
#39. For here, the moment all the spaces along the road between here and there - which the young know are infinite and all others know are not - get used up, that's it.
Galway Kinnell
#40. They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice
Thornton Wilder
#41. I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
Elizabeth Janeway
#42. The preceding collection of stories about Einstein the young boy demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his most characteristic personal traits were native rather than acquired.
Abraham Pais
#43. There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It
Victor Hugo
#45. We all fell in love with the young Macaulay Culkin, back in the day
Joe Buck
#46. It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#47. [On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.
Carolina Nairne
#48. The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in
the lamplight - paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.
Cassandra Clare
#49. I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.
Winona Ryder
#50. And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.
George Martin
#51. What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
John Spratt
#52. What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?
Brad Gooch
#53. For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.
Plato
#54. In war, our elders may give the orders ... but it is the young who have to fight.
T.H. White
#55. If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Jacques Chirac
#56. The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter.
"That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.
Kerry Greenwood
#57. The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner
#58. As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it.
Eva Marie Saint
#59. Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.
Robert Jordan
#61. Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.
Karin Slaughter
#62. I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.
Ingmar Bergman
#63. People who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work - which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia.
Henry Miller
#64. Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
Elton John
#65. The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
Mason Cooley
#66. The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it.
Emily Bronte
#67. Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#68. The young remember most deeply ... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
Dan Simmons
#69. Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
Paul J. McAuley
#70. Ploughing, and clung to their feet with a weight that pulled like desire, lying hard and unresponsive when the crops were to be shorn away. The young corn
D.H. Lawrence
#71. His soul is still hovering here, near his body," says the young man. "It does not depart from the body for three days.
Anton Chekhov
#72. A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.
Tom Piazza
#73. Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle.
Denise Chavez
#74. The young woman went to rummage in a sideboard and came back to the table with a stout cook's knife. But instead of using it to cut the fruit, she showed the point to each of the men in a meaningful way, then tucked the blade into her kirtle. They
George R R Martin
#76. What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.
Ken Ham
#77. Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies.
Georgette Heyer
#78. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.
Luke Scull
#79. All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
Adolf Hitler
#80. I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.
Tia Mowry
#81. Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.
Edward Herrmann
#82. If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
Martin Luther
#84. The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler
#85. New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
Patti Smith
#86. The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
Frank Herbert
#87. Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
Charles Lamb
#88. Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.
Alex Gaskarth
#89. Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.
Xunzi
#90. The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.
Clive James
#91. The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age.
Jojo Moyes
#93. It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.
Montesquieu
#94. No good thing comes from the practice of comparison. What farmer is constantly comparing the young sprout he just planted with the mature, fruitful vines and measuring its height against them? Our Vinedresser does not pit us against one another, and we should follow His lead.
Anna Blanc
#95. Teddy didn't really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their own.
Kate Atkinson
#96. The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.
Andrew Carnegie
#97. For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect and phenomena of Nature, as well as with the ideas and associations which these things produce in the human mind.
H.P. Lovecraft
#98. We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.
J.K. Rowling
#99. The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.
Krishnamurti
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