Top 74 Young Enough Old Enough Quotes
#1. Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.
John Bingham
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.
Georges Guetary
#5. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.
Joanna Walsh
#6. If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
Mignon McLaughlin
#7. (Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.
Willie Nelson
#8. I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them.
Louisa May Alcott
#9. Now and then may not be enough ... You have to enjoy it while you're still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can't do it anymore.
Haruki Murakami
#10. She was old enough to be stately, yet young enough to be known for her remarkable beauty. In short, she was the type of woman Sarene would normally hate - if she weren't also the kindest, most intelligent woman in the court. After
Brandon Sanderson
#11. 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
#12. As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.
Sandra Bullock
#13. It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.
Brigham Young
#14. I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler
#15. The male ghost looked God-awful old and starved and moth-eaten. The female ghost looked young enough to be his daughter, sleek, bouncy, and full of hell
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#16. Forty being the "precise age where you're old enough and young enough to handle a revelation".
Liane Moriarty
#17. These tantalizing clues used to be enough to sustain him. Now it was only the grail he wanted. He felt grown old inside his young skin. I tire of wonders, he thought.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it. Noah
Fredrik Backman
#19. I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'
Brett Hull
#20. We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.
Chuck Klosterman
#21. Walt: Do you miss the good old days?
Gracie: How old?
Walt: When we were old enough to be good.
Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young.
Sean Condon
#22. I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.
Virginia Aird
#23. When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.
Martin Amis
#24. I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy
old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#25. What the hell am I? I thought. Too old to be a real teenager, too young to drink. Old enough to die in a war, fuck grown men, and be completely confused about what I was doing with my life.
Leah Raeder
#26. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.
J. Ruth Gendler
#27. Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.
Hilari Bell
#28. He shrugs. We were young back then and swept up in the excitement that we could throw out the old ways and rebuild the world. I'm older now and understand. Our plans weren't thorough enough back then. This time they are.
Richard Kadrey
#30. Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
Anthony Marra
#31. No one wanted to be responsible for telling the young and innocent Princess about the things a man and a woman could do together. No one wanted to take away my innocence. Well I was now 112 years old, I figured I was old enough to learn.
Laura Greenwood
#32. Old enough to know better, young enough to do it twice and see if it gets my rocks off,
Amelia Hutchins
#33. Old enough to know better and young enough to want to do it anyway.
Stormy Glenn
#34. I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.
Betty Hutton
#36. I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Birch Bayh
#37. I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.
Andre Leon Talley
#38. Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie.
'Now, Curdie, are you ready?' she said.
'Yes ma'am,' answered Curdie.
'You do not know what for.'
'You do, ma'am. That is enough.
George MacDonald
#39. I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.
Pete Townshend
#40. Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
Aeschylus
#41. 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
#42. Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.
Jennifer Worth
#43. Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother.
Karen Marie Moning
#44. How old are you?"
"Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.
J.M. Stewart
#45. A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#46. young people no longer "believe in the old standards and authorities, and they're not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of morals and conduct in place of the sanctions that have been destroyed for them.
Sarah Churchwell
#47. You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.
Nia Vardalos
#48. I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.
Wade Hayes
#49. I train all the time and the weird thing is I'm in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids - either they haven't trained hard enough or they aren't serious enough.
Hulk Hogan
#50. Felt like yesterday, all that bodily joy. Begun so young they didn't even know what they were doing and they wouldn't give it up, so when they were old enough, they married. Not the worst thing to build a marriage around, such juice. The first years had been delirious, the latter ones merely happy.
Lauren Groff
#51. 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
#52. It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Luigi Pirandello
#53. It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."
She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been best friends with since she was barely old enough to walk?"
He shook his head. "Those are the worst.
Marissa Meyer
#54. 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
#55. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy
#56. 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
#57. I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
Nick Lowe
#58. I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
Michael Caine
#59. I'm young enough to do it, and old enough to do it right.
Cameron Jace
#60. I was old enough to know that magic didn't exist, and young enough to hope that I was wrong. I was sure that if magic belonged anywhere in the world, it was living and breathing right across the road in Mr. Peterson's field.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#61. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
Tyler Perry
#62. I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.
W.B.Yeats
#63. I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
Billy Zane
#64. Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'
Meghan Daum
#65. It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.
Cassandra Clare
#66. He had never been particularly young, or to put it another way, he had been young for a long time and now was at his true age, old enough for civilized comfrots and not too old for the primal ones.
James Salter
#67. There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.
Dharma Mittra
#68. I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.
Buck Leonard
#69. Funny how I was old enough by sixteen to drink, fight and vote, but even two years later I am to young to respect.
Amie Kaufman
#70. When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte Bardot
#71. My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.
Jane Austen
#72. I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.
Mel Gibson
#73. That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.
Ice-T
#74. Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.
Josa Young
