young quotes

“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”

— Sophocles

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”

— Victor Hugo

“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.”

— Victor Hugo

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”

— Victor Hugo

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

— Robert Redford

“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”

— Robert Redford

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.”

— Christina Aguilera

“When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. ”

— Kobe Bryant

“This young century will be liberty's century. ”

— George Washington Bush

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

— Maya Angelou

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”

— Maya Angelou

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.”

— Mick Jagger

“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”

— William James

“Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.”

— Kim Kardashian

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”

— Stephen King

“A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”

— Stanley Kubrick

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.”

— Paul McCartney

“I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.”

— Paul McCartney

“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”

— Douglas MacArthur