You Are Too Young Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of - oh, of your father.

Harper Lee

#4. You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple
sometimes naive.

Jiang Zemin

#5. People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.

Susan Meissner

#6. There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.

John Fowles

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.

Penelope Cruz

#11. You are too young to understand, solange, but there are many different types of love in this world. There are lovers of the flesh, lovers of the mind, and lovers sustained by family.:

Alyson Richman

#12. You want to save the world."
"What's wrong with that?"
He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by."
"I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful.

Jane Rogers

#13. I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.

Annie F. Downs

#14. 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

#15. You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.

Elton John

#19. Let things bother you. The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#20. I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.

Henry Rollins

#21. I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

Taylor Swift

#22. The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Paul Dickson

#23. Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. 'Don't come too close if you know what's good for you, these nits are on steroids.

Sharon Sant

#24. 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.

#25. 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

#26. Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.

Maria Callas

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Do not be too sure, young fellows,
That you are better than your ancestors.

William Kean Seymour

#30. Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!)

Diana Rose Morcilla

#31. 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

#32. If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

Diana Wynne Jones

#33. You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#34. 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

#35. Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world - one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

J.C. Ryle

#36. Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

Heather Brewer

#37. When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

Peter Hook

#38. Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.

CLAMP

#39. Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that's the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven't had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.

Christopher Walken

#40. The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#41. Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.

Tony Danza

#42. The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

Michael Lewis

#43. 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

#44. It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!"
"Mom!"Leo cries,turning bright red.

Wendy Mass

#45. You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.

Henry James

#46. You are never too young to lead.

Kofi Annan

#47. Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Dana Scott

#48. You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Jim Rogers

#49. I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

William Devane

#50. When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Daniel Barenboim

#51. No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.

Kara Swisher

#52. The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

Suzanne Somers

#53. I tell young girls all the time: "Go for the guys who are more serious, distinguished". The hot-model types, they're too pretty, and too wet behind the ears. Besides, do you want a guy who takes longer to get ready than you?

Kimora Lee Simmons

#54. You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!

Natalie Grant

#55. My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

Suzy Kassem

#56. You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

Scott Westerfeld

#57. I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Gia Coppola

#58. 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

#59. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

#60. She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Graham Greene

#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. 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

#63. 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

#64. - 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

#65. 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

#66. With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

Idina Menzel

#67. You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

Kofi Annan

#68. The young nihilists," Dad called us.
"What are nihilists?"
"Nihilists believe that nothing has any meaning. They believe in nothing."
"Yeah," said Earl. "I'm a nihilist.
"Me, too," I said.
"Good for you," Dad said, grinning. Then he stopped grinning and said, "Don't tell your mom.

Jesse Andrews

#69. When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Edward Norton

#70. I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

M.C. Escher

#71. The best thing about being young is being stupid. Or rather, the best thing about being young is being too stupid to know how stupid you really are.

Douglas Coupland

#72. Never let anyone tell you that you are too old to accomplish something ...
An old 'Gator will take just as big a bite out of you, as a young one!

Jose N. Harris

#73. Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

Peter Shaffer

#74. Eventually, Simon shifts his position, grunting lightly, and then says, "Nice makeover."
"Are you hitting on me?" Harrison jokes.
"All I want is to be your frienemy," Simon jokes back.
"I'm not ready for commitment," Harrison says. "Too young for that.

David Estes

#75. You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery.

Mercedes Lackey

#76. Dear Valentine,' said the young man, 'you are too far above my love for me to dare speak of it to you, yet every time that I see you I need to tell you that I adore you, so that the echo of my own words will gently caress my heart when I am no longer with you.

Alexandre Dumas

#77. So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?"
"Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

Rusty Fischer

#78. You don't want to wear any styles that are too young ... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters.

Jerry Hall

#79. Studies show that adults who ask younger people to join them in volunteer ministries become significant mentors and friends to these young servants ... a great way to serve not only those you are serving but young people, too.

Rich Bimler

#80. You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.

Taylor Swift

#81. It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

Rachel Caine