Top 100 Quotes About When You're Young
#1. The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.
Francis Ford Coppola
#2. I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it's not even tacky when you're young. But when you get older, it's just tacky.
Andie MacDowell
#3. Maybe when you're young, you love people as much for their potential as for who they are right now. And if that's the case, what happens to love when time passes and that potential starts to shrivel and fade? Does love die with it?
Janelle Brown
#4. When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs
#5. When you're young, you have all these things to worry about - should
you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but
then something else comes up. It's much easier to just plain decide. Never
mind - nothing is going to change your mind.
Richard Feynman
#6. Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that.
Josephine De La Baume
#7. When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
Haruki Murakami
#8. One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God ... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with ... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.
John Carpenter
#9. It's funny the things you think will last forever when you're young.
J. Sterling
#10. When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.
Robert Goolrick
#11. It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
Harold Prince
#12. When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.
Randall Jarrell
#13. When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.
Joanna Lumley
#14. When you're young, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.
When you're old, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can suck.
Peter James West
#15. You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood
#16. When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.
Jeff Foxworthy
#17. [Hollywood] always sounds glamorous when you're young.
Patricia Neal
#18. When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
Marilyn Monroe
#19. When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Dan Savage
#20. It's a horrible thing to have your body fail you. You never think about it when you're young.
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.
Rhoda Janzen
#22. Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
Lana Parrilla
#23. When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
Sigourney Weaver
#24. When you're young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of them contradict each other.
Elan Mastai
#25. When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.
Kelsey Chow
#26. Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you're young. It's that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.
Shaun Tan
#27. I am not against Botox, and I would never judge anyone else for getting any kind of surgical or non surgical procedure, but I think when you're young there are other ways you can look after your skin ... Botox just wasn't necessary for me at this age.
Kim Kardashian
#28. When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
Ozzy Osbourne
#30. If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.
Auliq Ice
#31. And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
Carrie Fisher
#32. My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.
Guy Kawasaki
#33. When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.
Matt Prokop
#34. A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Richard Eyre
#35. But a bond is a bond. And when you're young and haven't yet learned to live in your own solitude, even a destructive bond can seem better than none.
Elisabeth Elo
#36. As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.
Elizabeth Brundage
#37. You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well, I'm done with that. I think it's much more interesting to say just what you mean.
Nick Lowe
#38. Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
Jodi Picoult
#39. When you're young you just run, but you come back to what you need.
Taylor Swift
#40. When you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.
Charles Bukowski
#41. I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
Dakota Blue Richards
#42. When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
Elisha Cuthbert
#43. Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.
Erin O'Connor
#44. You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith
#45. When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
Catherine Deneuve
#46. I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.
Sylvia Plath
#47. When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car.
Gin Wigmore
#48. That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
Marc Webb
#49. I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.
Daniel Wu
#50. Eh. Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young." I
Kiera Cass
#51. You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
Ray Bradbury
#52. Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
Carol Bartz
#53. To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."
Donal Logue
#54. When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again.
Julian Barnes
#55. I thought about what I'd just reread in my father's book. About going out and just driving, and how you can only do it when you're young.
Anonymous
#56. One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.
Lea Thompson
#57. When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
I. F. Stone
#58. When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young ... because you don't know what's out there.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#59. When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.
Italo Calvino
#60. Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.
Sophia Bush
#61. But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?"
"Thirteen years now."
"Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong."
She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.
Patrick Ness
#62. When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#63. When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
Sinead O'Connor
#64. When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
Jason Reitman
#65. There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
Victoria Azarenka
#66. When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
Manny Montana
#67. The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
Cherie Lunghi
#68. It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
Lena Dunham
#69. Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.
Jennifer E. Smith
#70. My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.
Corey Haim
#71. I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.
Steve Martin
#72. I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up.
Robert Pattinson
#73. When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.
Harold Ramis
#74. When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
Paul Auster
#75. When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.
Lisa Unger
#76. I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.
Haruki Murakami
#77. We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.
Uri Geller
#78. The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.
John Bytheway
#79. Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
Paul Feig
#80. You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."
Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis
Deyth Banger
#81. When you're young, you say what you feel.
When you're adult, you speak what you think.
When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.
Toba Beta
#82. It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
Paul Merton
#83. When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.
Amanda Seyfried
#84. When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.
George Clooney
#85. It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.
Charles De Lint
#86. When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
Katarina Witt
#87. You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.
Anna Quindlen
#88. In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.
Alec Baldwin
#89. When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#90. When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!
Jonathan Brandis
#91. The world is a wonderful place when you're young.
E.B. White
#92. People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
Jennifer Lopez
#93. When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
Doris Lessing
#95. Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.
Joey Comeau
#96. When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.
Nicole Krauss
#97. As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.
Patti Smith
#98. I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
Sete Gibernau
#99. When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
Deborah Kerr
#100. to be in Paris when you're young and free - well, there's not much on earth better than that.
Terry Hayes
