Top 100 When You Are Young Quotes
#1. Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
John Niven
#2. From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#3. It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
Jon Krakauer
#5. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
#6. You really expect answers to your calling when you are young. You feel that whatever you may think can be real. And some times maybe that is not so wrong.
Ray Bradbury
#7. When you are young you are curious to know all about everything, why the sun shines, what the stars are, all about the moon and the world around us; but as we grow older, knowledge becomes a mere collection of information without any feeling.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#8. I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.
Ruth Ann Minner
#10. When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
Henry Rollins
#11. Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#12. I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
Iman
#13. It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Lauren Oliver
#14. When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go.
Jennifer Worth
#15. Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Let's say its schaufenfrieglasploit.
Amy Poehler
#16. When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
Annette Funicello
#17. I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.
Johnny Depp
#18. When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. Somerset Maugham
#19. I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.
Douglas Coupland
#20. I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.
Julie Delpy
#21. And it's easy to be cynical about death when you're young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It's not real. It only affects other people.
Neil Gaiman
#22. When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.
Charles K. Kao
#23. How you love your heroes when you are young and safe and the world has not ended.
John Green
#24. I walked out and breathed fresh air. I felt the sun on my skin. The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe. I said hello to the gatekeeper. He said hello back to me.
Sarah Winman
#25. When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#26. When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
Helen Dunmore
#27. You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
Fran Lebowitz
#28. But Vivien wasn't being given the chance to sow her wild oats. Speaking from a point of authority, it's best to get that shit out of the way when you are young.
Lisa Lutz
#29. I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#31. When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.
Chuck Barris
#32. There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.
Cher
#34. Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
Lauren Conrad
#35. Life is so easy when you are young and have nothing to lose.
James Marquess
#36. Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#37. Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.
Alice Hoffman
#38. When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#41. When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.
Sylvester Stallone
#42. It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.
Martin Jacques
#43. When you are young you have no idea what you will need as time passes or how strong you might have to be.
Jane Shemlit
#44. When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
#45. There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.
Shuly Xochitl Cawood
#46. When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.
Robert Black
#47. When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.
Kate Kerrigan
#48. ...Our Lord's words to Peter, as recorded in St. John's gospel: 'When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go.'...I have always thought that it is a general reflection about us all.
Jennifer Worth
#49. No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn't a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn't plan to die young. Death is so boring.
Sofea Shah
#50. Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.
Theresa May
#51. 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
#52. Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home.
Francesca Lia Block
#53. It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about
(That is, when you are young) ...
Philip Larkin
#54. La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.
Maria Bethania
#55. When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
#56. When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Laini Taylor
#57. Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes
just real.
Elvis Presley
#58. When you are young and powerless you dream of possessing mystical strength, and once you are grown and strong you condemn lesser folk to that same dream,
Bernard Cornwell
#59. Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken.
Jane Green
#60. We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.
Aminatta Forna
#61. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.
Jonathan Hull
#62. When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.
Pele
#63. When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.
Brian Aldiss
#64. When you are young and strong ... you can stay alive on your hatred" ... but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"
Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
#65. Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl
#66. Are you happy?' she asked.
'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.
Ruth Ahmed
#67. I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
Mary Gordon
#68. "The Moderately Talented ... " is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.
Mark Kozelek
#69. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.
Joy Behar
#70. You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh ... " Now my tactics are different.
Sandra Cisneros
#71. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
Brian Chesky
#72. When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
Cary Grant
#73. In the beginning, yes I did go back ... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit
Lil' Kim
#74. You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.
Berti Vogts
#75. It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.
Jeremy Sumpter
#76. That's the worst thing about being young. You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised
Tarryn Fisher
#77. It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
Hugo Weaving
#78. I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#79. Richard took one look and said, 'Ali, you are too young to work in the States.' He then drew a line on the wall. 'When you are that tall we will send you,' he said. Even today I would not reach that line. I was disappointed, of course. I
Ali Al-Naimi
#80. When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
Kevin Harrington
#81. When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.
Yelena Baturina
#82. Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me ... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.
Nick Clegg
#83. When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.
Anthony Hopkins
#84. The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William Faulkner
#85. At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.
John Green
#86. ARE YOU CRAZY? I ASKED.
He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.
Richelle Mead
#87. Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
Gabrielle Zevin
#88. Sometimes, that's the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they're nothing like you expect them to be.
Bella Forrest
#89. When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
Daniel Barenboim
#90. Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.
John Hughes
#91. Steph, you are my sister and I love you. I have always tried to protect you, even when it meant leaving you to fend for yourself so that you'd become strong on your own.
Thaddeus Nowak
#92. It's entirely possible that there are memories you have buried or repressed, memories formed when you were too young to have a conscious recollection of them, that Brother Jeremiah can reach. It could help us a great deal.
Cassandra Clare
#93. May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
Marcel Proust
#94. You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.
Sigrid Undset
#95. No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end.
Joe Hill
#96. I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.
Angelina Jolie
#97. Women are walking around on the streets. From her calf and the hem of her skirt to her hip, from her hair to the high heels on her feet, a young woman is freedom. Especially when you look at her from afar.
Hwang Sok-yong
#98. I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.
Helena Bonham Carter
#99. I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young ... " I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?
Jake Gyllenhaal
#100. When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark.
Debasish Mridha
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