Top 100 Too Young Sayings
#1. And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know ...
Neil Gaiman
#2. The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question.
Michael Chabon
#3. Why was she doing this to herself? She was too young to be locked away in this grim castle, weighed down with responsibility that was not hers
to shoulder. She should be at parties, being feted, dancing, and enjoying
herself. Or be surrounded by bairns. My bairns, he thought fiercely.
Monica McCarty
#4. He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
John Irving
#5. His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return,
George Orwell
#6. I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.
Shaquille O'Neal
#7. There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'
Rick Warren
#8. Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."
Vivien Leigh
#9. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#10. Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
Jeff Buckley
#11. My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.
Coco Austin
#12. I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.
Jenna Jameson
#14. Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land
too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.
Keith Ablow
#15. I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Sue Townsend
#16. It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
Gary Barlow
#17. He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes...
Chris Culver
#18. We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible ... So we will do them anyway.
William Wilberforce
#19. Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.
Paullina Simons
#20. I'm only seventeen. Sometimes that feels too young to have lived the life I have. Sometimes I look around at my surroundings and think, I don't belong here
Erin Watt
#22. My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife with five rambunctious little kids to take care of. I was the youngest. Only a couple of months old when he died.
Lewis B. Smedes
#23. There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
John Saxon
#24. She was too young to truly understand our loss, and she was too old to hold in my arms. Yet, I wanted nothing more than to clutch her against me as we faced the burial of her mother.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#26. He's me, Jaime realized suddenly. I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivalry. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young.
Anonymous
#27. I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.
Aldis Hodge
#28. When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.
Paul Bettany
#29. Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.
Frank Zappa
#30. The real problem devolves around class lines once again: it's the street hormones that folks without insurance, or folks who are too young for prescriptions without parental okay, use. Sometimes those hormones can be pretty rough.
Kate Bornstein
#31. People always tell me I shouldn't run so far because I'm too young and my bones will fall to pieces. But I do it anyway-mainly because I love the bit when you finish and get to stop running.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#32. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows.
A.S.A Harrison
#33. With our seat belts still fastened, there's no way for us to move closer, at least not without clearly stating our intentions to do so. And this is all too young and new for that.
Carrie Ryan
#34. Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#35. He couldn't work it out. He felt too young to be married, though. He felt too young to be anything.
Sunjeev Sahota
#36. Adults like to pretend that our feelings aren't as big and important as theirs - that we're too young to really know what we want. But I think what we want is similar to what they want. We want to find someone who believes in us. Who will take our side and make us feel less lonely.
Colleen Hoover
#37. I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.
Libba Bray
#38. was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way,
Christy Brown
#39. As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
Hamish Bowles
#40. I don't know the world, nor yet the people in it; I have been too solitary - I am too young to trust my own opinions.
Joseph Conrad
#41. I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without
the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality,
and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future.
Peter Ackroyd
#42. You are too young," said one of the Directors, hesitating about his appointment as general. "In a year," answered Napoleon, "I shall be either old or dead.
J.G. Lockhart
#43. I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.
Tyra Banks
#44. Alex Rider- you're never too young to die...
A. Horowitz
#45. I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.
Richard Brautigan
#46. It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
Scott Spencer
#47. OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Maya Lin
#48. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
Elaine Dundy
#49. My uncle missed the sixties. Not because he was too young. He just simply slept through them.
Jarod Kintz
#50. In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.
Lori Lansens
#51. You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
Joanna Trollope
#52. They say we're too young to love, but maybe they're just too old to remember..
Wiz Khalifa
#53. I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#54. I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Gale Norton
#55. Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.
Epicurus
#56. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.
Edward Albee
#57. I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
Alison Jackson
#58. You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and when it does, how unlikely to endure. And once it is lost, how hard to live without.
Wayne Johnston
#59. I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
Piers Anthony
#60. I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'
Isabella Rossellini
#61. There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
Tarsem Singh
#62. Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
Wendi McLendon-Covey
#63. I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
Harbhajan Singh
#65. Life is filled with pain and beauty. It's a journey, a learning experience. You've always been a girl who has had to learn by doing, not by watching and listening--don't change that. Don't change that now--you're too young.
Karyn Bosnak
#66. There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Kin Hubbard
#67. Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
Anthony Marra
#68. You are never too old to dream, keep dreaming like never before and you're never too young to dream, so young people go for it don't hesitate; dream again and again.
Euginia Herlihy
#69. Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.
Jane Wagner
#70. We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
Roger McGough
#71. Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
George Eliot
#72. Shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything.
Glen Duncan
#73. I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.
Santosh Kalwar
#74. [ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.
Jeb Bush
#75. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
Erma Bombeck
#76. Too young for a lot of things, but that didn't stop them from happening.
Weldon Burge
#77. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
Sharon Creech
#79. When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
Gene Weingarten
#80. I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!
Jonas Armstrong
#81. I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
Alexi Giannoulias
#82. The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it. His mind was too young and too narrow to withstand the onrush of her life.
Karen Russell
#83. stood side by side. My mother too had served the Lady. Too young to bear arms in the last war, from within the palisade where she trained to take
Catherine M. Wilson
#84. You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
Helen Fisher
#86. You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.
Mike Lee
#87. IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left when we were young, almost too young to remember. Almost. I
Pittacus Lore
#88. Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
Howard Jacobson
#89. I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.
Catherine Tate
#90. When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess
Nick Hornby
#91. It's fresh to you because you're too young to know anything but the way things are now.
Actually, it is kind of incredible that things were ever any other way, isn't it?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#92. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.
Clementine Von Radics
#93. I feel like I'm way too young to wear such heavy makeup all the time. It's just bad for your skin, but I'm always doing photo shoots or red carpets and events, so I obviously want to look good.
Kylie Jenner
#94. He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.
Alan Hollinghurst
#95. I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different
Philippa Gregory
#96. Lane and Zack got hitched. So while it might not be very punk rock to be too young to drink legally at your own wedding, it's certainly handy to have the thumbs up from God to get laid.
Jennifer Crusie
#97. He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound.
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.
Halldor Laxness
#98. A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
Andre Simon
#100. Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.
Gail Carson Levine
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