Top 100 Your Young Quotes
#1. Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head.
Martin Espada
#2. I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
Kajol
#3. I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.
Liam Neeson
#4. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.
Annie Leibovitz
#5. Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
John Anthony West
#6. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.
Angela Parkhurst
#7. It worries me. I don't want you in debt, workin' yourself into an early grave because of me. You're young. You should be out enjoyin' your life,
Dakota Cassidy
#8. The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Aravind Adiga
#9. Ryuu stepped forward. "Meryn, listen carefully. Elizabeth is not only your new sister, she will also be your Yoda. She will teach you and guide you in the ways of using the force, so that you will master paranormal politics. Learn well, young padawan." He clapped a hand on Meryn's shoulder.
Alanea Alder
#10. I don't need another 'adversity builds character' speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where's your adversity?"
Darren raised a brow. "I'm looking at it.
Rachel E. Carter
#11. You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
Joe Frank
#12. If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough.
Marie Lu
#13. Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#14. It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.
James Salter
#15. Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.
T.S. Pettibone
#16. When we are young and don't cultivate a healthy lifestyle, we will grow-older and our bodies will reflect the neglect.-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#17. Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
Michelle Obama
#18. How would you like to star in your very own commercial?"
"I'd rather swim in battery acid.
Robin Benway
#19. Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
Euripides
#20. Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He's a prince, and he's only going to break your heart.
Rachel E. Carter
#21. When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
George Washington Carver
#22. Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.
P.C. Cast
#23. You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
Mary Oliver
#24. Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.
Fannie Flagg
#25. Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the teachers; it's not the fault of the young artist.
Lawrence Weiner
#26. When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to.
Ron Currie Jr.
#27. My suggestion for the young graduate is to go work for someone else and be a sponge, soaking up all the knowledge you can about the profession before heading out on your own.
Keith Granet
#28. You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
Ellie Goulding
#29. 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
#30. If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.
Christopher Paolini
#31. Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.
Audrey Greathouse
#32. There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple.
Smedley D. Butler
#33. You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. 'Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele' You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live.
Thus it has been spoken.
Lani Wendt Young
#34. Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
Goldie Hawn
#35. Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.
Elizabeth George
#36. I was young, still so young, that I thought my lack of wholeness was somehow my fault. I had no idea everyone feels this way - that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#37. I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of
Sherry Turkle
#39. You needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#40. Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities... There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other... If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
Jane Goodall
#41. My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.
Tubby Smith
#42. Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.
Jason Evert
#43. A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#44. 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
#45. I do not love the flowers that are about to expire. I fear my dotage mirrors the fading flower. Lush, blooming blossoms fall like a shower. I say to the young buds: let your prime retire.
Amy S. Kwei
#46. Strange how when you're young you have no memories ... Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.
Douglas Coupland
#47. I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
Miep Gies
#48. Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.
J.B. McGee
#49. Do it, SENATOR! And it will be the end of your career! Everyone will love to know of a scandal involving a senator who loves abusing luxury prostitutes." ~Larsson
Pet Torres
#50. Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.
Queen Latifah
#51. It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
Carrie Fisher
#52. Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
Henry Rollins
#53. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.
Miya Yamanouchi
#54. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
John Green
#55. When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.
Archie Griffin
#56. We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said.
"But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace.
Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. "On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.
Madeleine L'Engle
#57. When you were young, you had the resources to rebuild after each crater fate blasted in your life. Beyond a certain age, though, you could only wall off the damage and leave it there.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#58. You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.
Alex Flinn
#59. Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.
Dave Attell
#60. She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
Junot Diaz
#61. I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you're young, you should enjoy the fact your skin is free from lines and wrinkles rather than overloading it with products.
Louise Nurding
#62. You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing.
Garth Stein
#63. I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.
LeToya Luckett
#64. Don't rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.
Billy Graham
#65. I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.
Alanis Morissette
#66. Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
Walt Disney Company
#67. If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
Joseph Pilates
#68. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?
Miep Gies
#69. There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."
Francis Bacon
#70. And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
May Sarton
#71. Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!
Diana Gabaldon
#72. I want to mark your skin with the sins of Passion.
Pietros Maneos
#73. Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
Sebastian Coe
#74. So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!
Susie Bright
#75. Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures
Jules Verne
#76. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.
Andrew Lang
#77. I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.
Tracy Morgan
#78. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Moshe Arens
#79. Because once you give your body to a guy, there's no taking it back. And once you've done that it opens up feelings, emotions and vulnerabilities you never knew you were capable of having. I'm not ready to give him my heart. What if he breaks it?
J. Sterling
#80. So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#81. Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.
Chris Froome
#82. Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you're young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is - it's all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to hold on to your butterflies.
Brian Joyce
#83. The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.
Rajneesh
#84. How you love your heroes when you are young and safe and the world has not ended.
John Green
#85. Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
Jean Genet
#86. So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
#87. I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Ban Ki-moon
#88. When you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
Tyler Perry
#89. When we are young, we can put up with a great deal of discomfort in order to follow a dream. If, after thirty-five years, I'm still doing my own thing, it's because I haven't forgotten the dream. Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end.
Ruskin Bond
#90. Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#91. What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
Neil Peart
#92. In a society riven into 'us' and 'them', an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in the know, one of the unmolested. If there was never going to be an end to your country, and you could never leave, why wouldn't you opt for a peaceful life and a satisfying career?
Anna Funder
#93. When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!
Devon Werkheiser
#94. Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You're ... you're tearing me apart!
Serra Elinsen
#95. Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
Wilkie Collins
#96. Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.
Renee Ahdieh
#97. In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.
Esai Morales
#98. Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.
Edward Bloor
#99. If you truly must obey your mistress. If you truly must have revenge, then you can start with me. But if you choose to follow your own path, well you can start that with me too if you like.
Steve Hockensmith
#100. If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
Kurt Loder
