Top 100 Quotes About To Be Young
#1. Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Betty White
#2. I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.
Diane Kruger
#3. I do not dye my hair black
so as to be young again and sin again
but because people dye their clothes black in mourning,
so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.
Rudagi
#4. We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
Stephen Baxter
#6. To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.
Sonia Faleiro
#8. It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
Geraldine Brooks
#9. To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare
where others lack the courage
to plunge again into the elemental.
Thomas Mann
#10. I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
Neil Kinnock
#11. To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.
Frances Hardinge
#13. Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.
Tony Danza
#14. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
William Hazlitt
#15. What it is
is the memory of a dance
a song you heard long ago
to hear it is to be young again
and for once
for once you are happy
Julio Alexi Genao
#16. It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#17. I remember what it was like ... to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
#18. To learn is to be young, however old.
Aeschylus
#19. I want to be young for the longest time possible.
Onew
#21. But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#22. Edith who had still not fully recovered from the debauchery at the Hayeses' had glaced at the letter before dinner but she apparently lacked the energy to pry. "Oh to be young as you " was all she'd said before going to bed early.
Anna Godbersen
#23. ...I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failing of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgoten, lately...
J.K. Rowling
#24. It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor
#25. If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.
Richard Preston
#26. And the memory made her humble; for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.
Mathias Rust
#28. I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.
Leven Rambin
#29. My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
Magic Johnson
#30. It was, he thought, fine to be young and in love. Even in the graveyard which this world has become, it was fine.
Stephen King
#31. I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.
Jon Weisman
#32. I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
#33. Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"
"Who Wouldn't?
Lissa Price
#34. Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.
William Wordsworth
#35. In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
Wallace Stegner
#37. On every door the management had placed a photograph of the person so they could find their room. As he went by he saw face after face of someone who used to be young.
Fannie Flagg
#38. Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that,
L.M. Montgomery
#39. To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
Jose Bergamin
#40. What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
Boyd K. Packer
#42. I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.
Justin Bieber
#43. Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.
Gene Hill
#44. If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.
Caroline Kepnes
#45. It's great to be young and a Yankee!
Waite Hoyt
#46. To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,
Rachel Kushner
#47. I have intimate knowledge of what it was like to be young and uneasy and outraged under Reagan. My high school was 1980s America in miniature--you either belonged or you didn't, you learned to seek relief where you could find it.
Sarah Vowell
#48. Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#50. He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.
Gilbert Highet
#51. 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.
Anderson Silva
#52. They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.
Idries Shah
#53. I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.
Ashley Scott
#54. I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.
Dexter Palmer
#56. Dear child, I only did to you
what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is
fashionable to be young; I cry when it is
fashionable to laugh.
I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
Charles Bukowski
#57. Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Glenway Wescott
#58. It is better to be young, beautiful and rich than ugly, old and poor.
Max Bunker
#59. If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.
Simon Barnes
#60. Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.
Boy George
#61. You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?
Sharon Horgan
#63. I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals
#64. You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.
Vint Cerf
#65. Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.
Lorraine Hansberry
#66. The face which had long since forgotten how to be young and yet absolutely impenetrable, absolutely serene: no mourning, not even grief
William Faulkner
#67. You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
Diego Della Valle
#68. It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
Margot Kidder
#69. An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they what it was to be young ... and I seem to have forgotten lately ...
J.K. Rowling
#70. That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. Ah,it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not,then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs,which think themselves new; and which are yet but old,which pretend to be young like fine ladys at the opera.
Bram Stoker
#72. There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.
Lena Headey
#73. I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.
Vasily Grossman
#74. The pale leaf falls in pallor, but the green leaf turns to gold; We that have found it good to be young shall find it good to be old;
G.K. Chesterton
#76. To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.
Brandon Sanderson
#77. A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
Billie Burke
#78. An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.
Eleanor Brownn
#80. Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J.K. Rowling
#81. A night of carousing never passed without me stepping outside the experience to think, Yes, this must be what it is to be young.
Lena Dunham
#82. The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.
Jane Fonda
#83. To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
Pablo Picasso
#84. Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
Rebecca Goldstein
#85. Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.
Ruth Brown
#86. - Tell us, why has Romeo and Juliet survived four hundred years?
-Because ... because people want to remember what it's like to be young? And in love?
Rainbow Rowell
#87. I remember what it was ... to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.
James Baldwin
#89. 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
#90. Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#91. I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.
NeNe Leakes
#93. Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.
Chad Harbach
#94. I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
Michael Caine
#95. All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
Wanda Sykes
#96. People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
Joss Stone
#97. No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
Knut Hamsun
#98. Ah, to be young and agile again,' said Primrose.
'We were never that young,' replied Rue.
'More to the point, we were never that agile,' said Prim with a soft smile.
Gail Carriger
#99. What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
Karl Lagerfeld
