Young Tom Quotes

#1. I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.

Jake Epstein

#2. I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks.

Brendan Robinson

#3. I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young Tom Cruise, because Hollywood knows what to do with you. But if you're someone who's bringing someone slightly left of center to the table, you're not a sure thing.

Wentworth Miller

#4. You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

Elvis Costello

#5. Bluefur sighed. Now that he'd moved into the warriors' den, there would be no getting away from the conceited young tom. If Snowfur had to find a mate, why couldn't she pick a cat that Bluefur actually liked?

Erin Hunter

#6. I've always found wildlife very calming
except when animals are eating each other, of course.

Tom Upton

#7. Some grow young, some grow cold ...

Tom Petty

#8. TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

Tom Shadyac

#9. Many educators are loth to admit that the pursuit of pleasure might be a valid reason for drug use, or to recognize young people's curiosity, their need to experiment, to take risks and define their own boundaries.

Tom Feiling

#10. The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Tom Cruise

#11. It was at this time that I formed one of my own insights: it was strange how intelligent people, like Raffles, without being asked, freely spout off their insights and actually expect less intelligent people, like me, to be interested.

Tom Upton

#12. It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

Tom Watson

#13. "Well
I don't know
the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

Tom Upton

#14. Librarians are notorious snitches - don't let anybody convince you otherwise.

Tom Upton

#15. As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Tom Hanks

#16. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

Bill Hicks

#17. Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Tom Stoppard

#18. There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females.

Tom Robbins

#19. My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Tom Chapin

#20. Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.

Tom Peters

#21. I don't believe it! You're still interested in the girl, despite the fact that she might be some kind of alien. Does this sickness of yours have any bounds?

Tom Upton

#22. If young children boo me, that makes my day.

Tom Felton

#23. Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

Tom T. Hall

#24. 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

Tom Brokaw

#25. Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

Tom Vilsack

#26. John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

Tom Bodett

#27. I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

Tom Upton

#28. I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

Tom Bodett

#29. Do it while you're young. You may never have another chance to do anything this stupid again!

Tom Magliozzi

#30. When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.

Tom Douglas

#31. When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.

Bill Parcells

#32. When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

Tom Ford

#33. Tom got to rattling off the pranks he and his school boy buddies pulled ... and what I saw wasn't an old man gone wistful but rather an old man still resonating to the glee of a young heart.

Michael Perry

#34. A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

Tom Piazza

#35. Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!

Tom Ford

#36. There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Tom Wolfe

#37. You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

Tom Upton

#38. The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

Peter Agre

#39. I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

Tom Brokaw

#40. Negative media reinforcements not only influence how cops, judges, employers, and others view black males, they affect how young blacks view themselves.

Tom Burrell

#41. The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef, and Reap the Wild Wind, Oliver Griswold's The Florida Keys and the Coral Reef, and McGuane's Ninety-two in the Shade.

Tom Corcoran

#42. She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.

Tom Robbins

#43. I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: Yeah, show up.

Tom T. Hall

#44. I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

Tom T. Hall

#45. The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.

Tom Coughlin

#46. Oops! This young scientist tried to clean his friends' copper ID bracelets. But the acid was too strong and it removed part of each letter! Question: Can you add the missing lines to complete the letters and see to whom each bracelet belongs?

Tom Robinson

#47. I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.

Tom Brokaw

#48. Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.

Tom Cole

#49. Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

Tom Ridge

#50. If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

Tom Upton

#51. There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Tom Vilsack

#52. In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.

Tom Brokaw

#53. Apparently I couldn't even pretend to be normal.

Tom Upton

#54. But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

Tom DeLonge

#55. From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

Tom Six

#56. When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.

Tom Holland

#57. The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teeth, pushing hungrily from between his shrivelled lips like a clam from a shell, a bottom feeder searching for salty nutrition.

Tom Conrad

#58. I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Tom Upton

#59. I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast.

L.M. Montgomery

#60. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#61. You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame ... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Tom Brady

#62. Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

Tom Robbins

#63. It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in

Tom Kavanagh

#64. I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Tom Hooper

#65. It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

Tom Upton

#66. He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.

Suzanne Young

#67. Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

Shane Filan

#68. Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

Tom Petty

#69. I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.

Tom Petty

#70. Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#71. Other than the voices in my head, I think I'm pretty normal.

Tom Upton

#72. The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

Tom Brokaw

#73. He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes, when Tom kicked the sparks up in Thorin's face.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#74. Tom Brokaw was never young.

Adam McKay

#75. God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

Tom T. Hall

#76. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#77. Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.

Tom Robbins

#78. Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

Tom Upton

#79. When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

Tom Robbins

#80. When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.

Tom Ford

#81. A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Tom Stoppard

#82. My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the reason I think I wrote it was because it was too damn quiet when I was young, and I wanted people to come out and talk. And they do. There's so much dialogue in 'The End of Vandalism.'

Tom Drury

#83. What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

Tom Hooper

#84. Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

Alice Walker

#85. People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

Tom Stoppard

#86. No matter what I did, I was hurting someone. There was a constant battle of emotions going on inside my head, but even though I still cared about Tom all I wanted, all I needed, was Mika.

Shanice Williams

#87. Only the young and the beautiful should be allowed to fuck.

Tom Robbins

#88. Your dad and I have been talking."
"You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.

Tom Upton

#89. Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

Tom Hiddleston

#90. I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.

Sylvie Simmons

#91. You can't believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn't send you, no matter whether or not you like it.

Tom Upton

#92. I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.

Tom Ridge

#93. Perhaps the reason memoirs are so often written by the young these days is that, once you reach a certain age, only fiction might allow you to truly make your way back to childhood.

Tom Engelhardt

#94. In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

Tom Brokaw

#95. People come, people go
Some grow young, some grow cold
I woke up in between
A memory and a dream
So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint
Let's head on down the road
There's somewhere I gotta go
And you don't know how it feels
You don't know how it feels to be me

Tom Petty

#96. 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

Tom Robbins

#97. I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

Tom Colicchio

#98. Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

Tom Monaghan

#99. Life is much simpler if you don't notice anything ...

Tom Upton

#100. Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration and that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and you are the imagination of yourself. Here's Tom with the weather ... !

Bill Hicks