Too Young Sayings

#1. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

Fred B. Craddock

#3. Hate is giving them too much power.

Samantha Young

#4. I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.

Johnny Crawford

#5. He couldn't help but feel he was a little too young to consider forgoing sex for the rest of his life for the sake of companionship.

Kele Moon

#6. I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.

Tori Amos

#8. Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

Darren Shan

#9. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

Jack Kerouac

#10. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

David Pietrusza

#11. - You may always talk to me, honey ... - Started suddenly bright white moon. - The stars are too young to give you a wise advice, yet.

Galina Nelson

#12. The young man, who intends no ill,
Believes that none is intended, and therefore
Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.

Samuel Johnson

#13. I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Dorothy Hamill

#14. Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.

K.J. Farnham

#15. So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

Johnny Cash

#16. You disapprove," she commented. "Because I'm a girl?" "No." The voice paused. "Females are often the best hunters. They must provide for the young and survive when the males are too busy posturing to do so. But this is not the way with humans." "Humans?

Meagan Spooner

#17. What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it.
Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

Gerald Durrell

#18. God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

Tom T. Hall

#19. I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

St. Lucia

#20. My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

Mark Vonnegut

#21. I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

Imelda May

#22. It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

Sally Ride

#23. For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Carl Jung

#24. A guy and a girl can just be friends, but at one point or another they will fall for each other, maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

Becky Wicks

#25. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. And while I'm at it, I'll find out what's wrong with your sister, too.

Suzanne Young

#27. Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

Edward Young

#28. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.

L.M. Montgomery

#29. She didn't like thinking about it; hell, she was only thirty-two years old - way too young for crazy.

Ania Ahlborn

#30. When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.

Curtis Stone

#31. At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#32. seems young people don't want to make compromises or sacrifices too easily. They don't naturally go out of their way. It's the 'please me now' generation.

V.C. Andrews

#33. I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'

Nicole Richie

#34. We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us - anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Bill Russell

#35. If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?

Henny Youngman

#36. At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

William Standish Knowles

#37. It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

Richard Greenberg

#38. Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves."

"That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?

Robert Arthur

#39. You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

Bill Parcells

#40. As long as there are young people, and old people, too, who can imagine realities beyond seeing and touching, and as long as there are poets, and artists, and musicians, there will be unicorns.

Jack Clifford Smith

#41. I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

Carice Van Houten

#42. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

Laini Taylor

#43. In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

Adam Sisman

#44. Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.

Emma Donoghue

#45. What is a miracle?
'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Edward Young

#46. The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#47. Imagination is a safety net that catches you. There is no going too far, no need for a safe word inside your mind. This world is your creation.

K. Kiker

#48. And there is something in the young that rebels when life is made too strict, making us want to do most of all the very things denied to us.

V.C. Andrews

#49. I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

Josh Duhamel

#50. We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

Chuck Grassley

#51. If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

Mario Van Peebles

#52. Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#53. Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#54. 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

#55. He said he thought I was about twenty. Which is still too young. But not running-from-the-law young.

Kirsten Reed

#56. I'm fifty-seven. Too old for starting over, too young for giving up.

Sara Baume

#57. I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#58. Seriously, people. You suck at partying."
"We're depressed," Simon explained.
"You're too young to be depressed, unless you have gonorrhea. That shit is a buzz kill.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#59. A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.

Pierce Brown

#60. The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, the knowledge and confidence of the young mother, and a voice for those too weak to speak.

Virginia Henderson

#61. It is never too late or too early; you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do.

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient.

Anthony Doerr

#63. So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.
I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."
That's nice," she said ...

Orson Scott Card

#64. Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out.

Thomas Moran

#65. The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

George Herbert

#66. So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just before the end even treason might be worth a tryThis country is too young to dieI declare the war is overIt's over, it's over.

Phil Ochs

#67. It's never too late to stop regretting. It's never too late to see your present self as the young one and to listen to the person you hope to become.

Hugh Howey

#68. Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.

Drake

#69. In public, you're Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you're Jocelyn Butler - you're hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet," he breathed. "I like that I know that. I don't like the fact that other men do too.

Samantha Young

#70. Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

John Montgomery Ward

#71. We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Barack Obama

#72. People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

John Turturro

#73. The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

Ben Mendelsohn

#74. This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.

Jennifer Lawrence

#75. Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos of a promise as it broke.

Michael Chabon

#76. It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.

Toni Morrison

#77. It seems to be a universal generality that while the old want to reminisce, the young are too busy living to bother.

Doc Sanborn

#78. The weekends are too short for sleep!

Bryant A. Loney

#79. I wasn't strong when I was young. The puck was maybe too heavy. I guess I tried to move the puck from side to side to keep from getting hit.

Pavel Datsyuk

#80. And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

Gerald Scarfe

#81. I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.

Dylan Thomas

#82. When I get too old to go out and do things, I'll close my eyes and be young again, in my mind at least. We never really have to be old, I think, as long as we stay young inside, as long as we can still pretend." "Wow,

K. Martin Beckner

#83. For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

Larry Fitzgerald

#84. I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

Jesse Helms

#85. 'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.

NeNe Leakes

#86. Sarah had no intention of having nannies or anything like that. Her mother had sighed a bit, and said vaguely: 'I always find women who look after their own children get rather untidy and disorganised. Husbands hate it too'. Sometimes Sarah wanted to slap her face.

Josa Young

#87. Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

Ray Stevens

#88. Jane lives by this philosophy: Life, especially that of dogs, is too short for harsh training and too long to be without learning.

Jane Young

#89. So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#90. She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

Emmuska Orczy

#91. They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about ...

Graham Greene

#92. The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.

Parker Young

#93. Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.

Joseph G. Peterson

#94. At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

Delta Goodrem

#95. When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.

Charlotte Rampling

#96. Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open.

Gareth Gates

#97. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.

Anne Marie Becker

#98. I am too young and I've loved you too much.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#99. I think ... you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs.
"I'm too young, Dad."
"It's the most important thing ... I've done in ... my life.

Ursula Hegi

#100. I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

Kenneth Branagh