Too Young To Know Better Quotes

#1. We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

Edie Brickell

#2. I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore ... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

Katherine Center

#3. Pause and remember - Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space.

Jennifer Young

#4. When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

Stephanie Beacham

#5. Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

Anna Maria Chavez

#6. I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?

Oprah Winfrey

#7. All I know is that you probably deserve better than me, but I'm too selfish to let you. I'm into you, and I want you to be so into me, you don't even care that I'm not good enough for you.

Samantha Young

#8. Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

Sophia Bush

#9. Love is a rose
But you better not pick it.
It only grows
When it's on the vine.
Handful of thorns
And you'll know you missed it.
You lose your love
When you say the word MINE.

Neil Young

#10. You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Orson Scott Card

#11. Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.

Armistead Maupin

#12. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Chief Seattle

#13. I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

Kurt Masur

#15. Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#16. Gansey thought of how strange it was to know these two young men so well and yet to not know them at all. Both so much more difficult and so much better than when he'd first met them. Was that what life did to them all? Chiselled them into harder, truer versions of themselves?

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

Stephen Foster

#18. Old enough to know better and young enough to want to do it anyway.

Stormy Glenn

#19. Old enough to know better, young enough to do it twice and see if it gets my rocks off,

Amelia Hutchins

#20. Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

Tina Brown

#21. Old enough to know better, but too young to care.

Whitley Strieber

#22. When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

H.L. Mencken

#24. Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. Racism is like high blood pressure - the person who has it doesn't know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you're a racist than you are.

Coleman Young

#26. I get that we're both young and some people will say it's a phase or whatever, but I know better. You're the one.

Mary Calmes

#27. I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

Raekwon

#28. When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

Louise Erdrich

#29. Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth? That period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable.

Vera Brittain

#30. Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.

Courteney Cox

#31. Not true," said Adrian. "All guys mean the same thing when they want to 'get to know a girl better.' You're a wellbred young lady, so I understand why you'd be too innocent to understand. Good thing you've got me here to interpret.

Richelle Mead

#32. Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

Robert Ferrigno

#33. How old are you?"

"Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.

J.M. Stewart

#34. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

#35. There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me.

B.B. King

#36. What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'

Henry Sydnor Harrison

#37. I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.

Wade Hayes

#38. I don't know much about climate change. But I'm pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact - at least its health impact - and that's not going to happen unless you have a lot of young talent interested in these topics.

Paul Farmer

#39. My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

Damian Marley

#40. When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

Brigitte Bardot

#41. Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang
Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang
Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling
(I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train

ASAP Rocky

#42. What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Jonathan Kozol

#43. I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

Britney Spears

#44. I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

Billy Zane

#45. I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#46. 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