Quotation Explorer - 'Young'

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again. - Suzanne Joinson

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know. - Alan W. Watts

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight. - Jerry Falwell

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. - Milan Kundera

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. - Ogden Nash

Let things bother you. The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another. - Salman Rushdie

Attorney served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC). He spends lots of dedicated hours in creating the programs for the college lectures in assisting the new young rising scholar and motivate them to attend university. - Chris Salamone

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. - Tennessee Williams

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. - Jack Kerouac

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. - Virginia Euwer Wolff

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sidney J. Harris

More often than not a young couple stays in the same relationship, but they walk in different directions. - Debasish Mridha

Chris M. Salamone is a highly recognized Legal professional currently living in Boca Raton. He has over 20 years of experience in his career, he has helped thousands of young Americans to grow personally and professionally. - csalamone

One sister for sale,One sister for sale,One crying and spying young sister for saleI'm really not kidding so who'll start the biddingDo I hear a dollar?A nickle?A penny?Oh isnt there isnt there isnt there anyOne person who will buy this sister for saleThis crying spying old young sister for sale. - Shel Silverstein

Lady Godiva costume is the most suitable clothes for young red ladies. - Bryanna Reid

I love seeing young black women out in the world defying the "unfavorable odds" given by society. - Andrea L'Artiste

Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources. - Santosh Kalwar

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. - Jessica Simpson

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. - Benjamin Franklin

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young. - Compton Gage

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book. - Michael Cart

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou

Everyone dies young. - Marty Rubin

Lollypop...the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks... - Muse

...because you are young and you live in a confusing world of gray shades where compromises are easy and often."Keep you heart right. - Phạm Đức Trung Kiên

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. - Israelmore Ayivor

When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise! - Israelmore Ayivor

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it’s also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time? - Grace Helbig

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Jane Austen

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer. - Alamvusha

Actually he looks like a nice young man, and perhaps can't be blamed for his crass conception of women since all men think that way. I've met only one who appreciated me as a human being and even he didn't really. - Elin Wägner

No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless. - Isabella MacDonald Alden

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. - George Eliot

There was a young man of Dundoo, Whose limericks stopped at line 2. - Anonymous

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasureA life, in recollection, truly possessed. - Robert Wells

Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope. - Toni Robinson

The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...It's a vicious cycle. - Shreyas Tripathy

Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Let's say its schaufenfrieglasploit. - Amy Poehler

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

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? - Lois McMaster Bujold

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. - Pablo Casals

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later. - Nikki Rowe

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things. - Elizabeth Goudge

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me. - John Scalzi

No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn’t a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn’t plan to die young. Death is so boring. - Sofea Shah

When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you? - Amit Abraham

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

Not sorry, not calling, not cryingAll will pass like smoke of white apple treesSeized by the gold of autumn,I will no longer be young. - Sergei Yesenin

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that. - Patricia A. McKillip

Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels. - Meghan Blistinsky

In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer. - Adam Sisman

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. - Peter Høeg

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily. - Joyce Carol Oates

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. - Ambrose Bierce

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. - George Burns

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. - Jane Austen

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. - Herman Melville

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood - Rudyard Kipling

There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night. - John Collier

Praise the young and they will flourish. - Irish Proverb

It’s amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again. - DeWayne Owens

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said. - William Saroyan

Live young. Live hard. Love deep. - Samantha Young

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. - Henry David Thoreau

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads. - Judith Brocklehurst

One is never too late to become young at heart. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. - Mario Vargas Llosa

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - W. Somerset Maugham

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. - Bertrand Russell

When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love) - D.H. Lawrence

I am young to learn. - Lailah Gifty Akita

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself - Zelda Fitzgerald

An unbridled imagination is the fountain of youth; it's what keeps us young at heart. - Richelle E. Goodrich

TreeIt is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house.Even in this one lifetime,you will have to choose.That great calm being,this clutter of soup pots and books--Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life. - Jane Hirshfield

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. - Knut Hamsun

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. - Lawana Blackwell

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. - P. G. Wodehouse

No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears. - Maj Sjöwall

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young. - Jim Samuels

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily. - M.C. Beaton

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. - E.M. Forster

I'm just an innocent racist who likes to flirt with young adult women And I meet emotionally retarded misfits who are kinky about infants' feet, scheming psychopaths, suicidal emos, brain dead skinheads and mestizos posing as white supremacists. - Greg Deane

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. - Gene Brown

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young. - Eddie Whitlock

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. - Margaret Mead

Personally, I believe Young Adult to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. - Shannon Hale

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown. - J.M. Barrie

I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before. - African Proverb

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. - Bible

Young in limbs, in judgement old. - William Shakespeare

There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away. - Emma Straub

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. - Marshall Ganz

Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message. - Amanda Bernardo

What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917? - Peter J Tanous

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. - Quentin Crisp

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Pat Monahan

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it. - Taylor Swift

has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop. - Chris Salamone

The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young people take more drugs. - Robert Clark

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. - Fidel Castro

Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. - Epicurus

There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever - Germaine Greer

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. - Amadeo Bordiga

There’s one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it’s like to be one. - Justin Young

If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young. - Shimon Peres

When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you. - B. R. Sanders

A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all? - Margaret Atwood

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time? - Nancy E. Turner

I don't drive fast, I drive YOUNG. - Musawir Masood

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. - Timothy Leary

A loving heart is always young. - Debasish Mridha

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels. - Steve Martin

Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a God-honoring course, exciting things can happen. - Hal and Melanie Young

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. - Leo Tolstoy

People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual. - Joan Vass

Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair. - W.B. Yeats

My great-grandmother once told me that "being young ain't shit; everybody gets a chance to do that. What you should be trying to do is get old, like me. - Mrs. Beatrice Sturgis-White

Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life. - Chris Matakas

Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right. - Bruce Springsteen

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. - Heinz R. Pagels

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do. - Russell Brand

And she had pushed, or she hadn't. The result was all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her. But she'd been so very young. And how was it possible, how could parents do this? How could she not have been forgiven? - Lauren Groff

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. - Desiderius Erasmus

If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too - zundap

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it. - Charles Dickens

Whom the gods love dies young. - Menander

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now. - Agatha Christie

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape... - Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised. - Dorothy Parker

Time cancels young pain. - Euripides

In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way thatdeflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important.Love somebody extra. - Victoria Moran

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old. - Japanese Proverb

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them. - Lynda I Fisher

Friendship, just like a young green plant, needs to be nurtured. - Eraldo Banovac

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. - W. Somerset Maugham

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all. - Napoleon Bonaparte

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. - Bill Russell

The OakLive thy Life, Young and old,Like yon oak,Bright in spring, Living gold;Summer-rich Then; and thenAutumn-changedSoberer-hued Gold again.All his leaves Fall'n at length,Look, he stands,Trunk and bough Naked strength. - Alfred Tennyson

Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Porn mainly exists to satisfy the physical needs of men. Unfortunately many young men use porn to get educated about sex. But porn is not romance, lovemaking and about an emotional connection with their girlfriend, wife, or lover. - Dr. Warren Shepell

Just because I'm young, that doesn't mean I don't have a point. - Queen Wilma Malim

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government. - Ellen Goodman

A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life,You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think. - Joseph Campbell

America is a young country with an old mentality. - George Santayana

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. - Boyd K. Packer

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Do you remember when we learned how to fly? We'd play make-believe, we were young and had time on our side - Paradise Fears

I feel forever young. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. - Winston S. Churchill

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. - Richard Peck

Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young. - Glen McDiarmid

We have to teach the young that no one is out to do them any favours, even NGOs are formed for some motives, either to steal or to promote a particular person's image or that of an organisation etc.If you must get anything out of anyone, you must come with a bargaining chip. - Magnus Nwagu Amudi

Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up. - S. Walden

I wanna be forever young. - Alphaville

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head. - Martín Espada

When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community. - Rhoda Janzen

It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. - Mark Twain

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. - Pearl S. Buck

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen. - Roman Payne

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex. - Jennifer Elisabeth

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. - John Kerry

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. - Alephonsion Deng

Pale winter sun Is beatin' the ground Why'm I throwin' away The best thing that I've found My young heart's in tatters and I'm sureThat it will be a long time healing It's so hard to see what I'm doing this forWhen loneliness is all that I'm feeling - David Gray

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack of resources available - Abdullah Reslan Lawyer

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older. - Criss Jami

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn't the young who corrupt the old, rather it's the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. - Audrey Hepburn

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty. - Louisa May Alcott

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. - Rick Riordan

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. - W. Somerset Maugham

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. - Homer

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil. - Ambrose Bierce

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. - Francis Bacon

Live free , die young or stay weak , die poor . - Ankit Samrat

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. - Philip Pullman

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other - Veronica Roth

I don’t believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no. - Billy Graham

You are as young as you think. - Lailah Gifty Akita

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young? - Martin Luther

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. - Wilkie Collins

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. - Alison Gopnik

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. - Guy Debord

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could. - Alice Walker

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. - George Burns

"Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?" "That's true." "Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?" "That's true." "Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?" "That's true." "What does your doctor say about all of this?" "My doctor is dead." - George Burns

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer. - Alamvusha

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? - Logan Pearsall Smith

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) - Kurt Hahn

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers. - Erri De Luca

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. - Homer

It well becomes a young man to be modest. - Titus Maccius Plautus

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso - Patsy Asuncion

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference. - Gary Inbinder

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. - Ann Richards

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? - Paul Sweeney

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains. - Nuno Roque

I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces. - Amy Poehler

The good thing about being old is not being young. - Stephen Richards

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. - John Adams

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. - Jayleigh Cape

Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place. - Anthony Liccione

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. - George Konrád

Very young children often accept the paranormal as normal until adults squeeze it out them. - Doug Dillon

This, then, was Jango Fett's greatest reward, right here, sitting with his son, his young replica, sharing quiet moments. - R.A. Salvatore

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life. - Paul David Washer

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. - Bertrand Russell

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities. - Ambrose Bierce

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. - Kevin James Breaux

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahead 'cause you're so young, but—it's jus' the road goin' by for me. - John Steinbeck

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

Like the very young, she knew a little bit about a lot of things and a whole lot about nothing.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it. - Jim Henson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. - Chuck Palahniuk

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work - Sunday Adelaja

She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young - Owen Jones

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. - Thomas Moore

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing. - Monica Fairview

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. - Solange nicole

Stop thinking about the easy way out,There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done,You're far too young. - Nickelback band

He whom the gods love dies young. - Menander

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle

...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156) - Jack Kerouac

An example is the best inspiration for a young mind. - Debasish Mridha

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare. - Shannon Hale

There is no sinner like a young saint. - Aphra Behn

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made. - Edith Wharton

Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow. - Goitsemang Mvula

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle

We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel the Lord’s great love for them and their efforts through the influence of the Holy Ghost. - Neill F. Marriott

In summer, we grow younger and stay young forever. - Debasish Mridha

I dreamt that I was old. And you – you were beside me.Forever young – in your hand, a cup of stars. - Joanne Harris

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive. - Paul de Musset

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.

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

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time. - Gwendoline Riley

The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him. - Mccann Colum

Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women. - He Zhen

We are in the age of achievements provided we are adequately informed. we are not too young to make a difference nor too old to chart a new course - Sesan Kareem

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder - Lin-Manuel Miranda

As a young father it's important to remember that, when you're at the beach, there's a BIG difference between telling your five year old son to just go pee in the ocean and telling him to get in the water at least waist deep and then pee in the ocean. - Spuds Crawford

Arabs used to tell a poem to their children: O young man if you do not achieve greatness by the age of 20 you will never achieve greatness in your entire life. All those below 20 years of age should think about this. - Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. - Rick Riordan

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality. - Israelmore Ayivor

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers. - Marty Rubin

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything. - Rita Levi-Montalcini

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others. - Thomas McGuane

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I never dared to be radical when young, For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing - R. N. Prasher

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts. - Robert Frost

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. - Logan Pearsall Smith

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. - Arthur C. Clarke

The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him. - Qiu Xiaolong

Teddy didn't really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their own. - Kate Atkinson

. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God. - Bruce Marshall

I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels. - Vernon Sproxton

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up - Jodi Picoult

Always stay young with your looks, your thoughts should speak your maturity - Binoy Boban

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering - Jancee Dunn

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. - Laura Kreitzer

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp. - Debasish Mridha

The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book - Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey. - Hilary Mantel

I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth. - Roman Payne

Seek knowledge.Learning has no end.Learning makes you forever young. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. - Don DeLillo

A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere. - Judith Brocklehurst

The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Chris has turned out to be a revolutionary leader who started businesses for the first time of its kind that influenced the nation’s young blood and across the world. - csalamone

Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty. - Erin Hunter

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings - M.F. Moonzajer

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For young adults,the growth from silly to serious can be very fast, indeed. - Dean Cumings

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. - Jane Austen

If you keep an active life, you stay young. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks. - Albert Einstein

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness - J.K. Rowling

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. - John Barrymore

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Gratitude is uplifting and helps you glow, stay beautiful, and feel eternally young as it churns up zeal and undying enthusiasm. - Pooja Ruprell

By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a ‘child’, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good - John Holt

Jasper! Casey shouts, startling the young woman. My cargo is talking to me! - Nathan Reese Maher

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. - Aldo Leopold

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. - Konrad Lorenz

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. - Joseph Addison

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner

You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young - El Fuego

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young - Wilbur Smith

The secret of staying young is to be simple and happy like a child. - Debasish Mridha

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature. - David Byrne

I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life... - D. Bruce Lockerbie

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves. - Ivan Turgenev

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope. - Judy Blume

The best thing about being eighty-eight is knowing I'm not going to die young.

Try to imagine what the rising generation could become if these five righteous patterns were practiced consistently in every home. Our young people could be like Helaman’s army: invincible (see Alma 57:25--26). - Larry R. Lawrence

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. - George S. McGovern

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. - Henry Ford

When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all. - T.A. Uner

The most insidous influence on the young is not violence, drugs, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and tolerance of the third rate. - Dr. Eric Anderson Headmaster of Eton. .

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. - Michael Jackson

Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they’re short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It’s defeatist and demoralising. - Christina Hoff Sommers

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth. - Tyra Banks

I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. - Muhammad Yunus

Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation. - Shallu Jindal

Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions - Sunday Adelaja

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going. - J.B. Priestley

War is young men dying and old men talking - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion and utter loyalty. Not until we break our own hearts when we learn that what we desire is nothing like what we thought it would be. ~Papercut Doll - Alexia Purdy

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die. - Kayko Tamaki

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. - Aristotle

There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many. - Anonymous

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying. - Anthony Liccione

It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon - Craig Martelle

The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question. - Michael Chabon

I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it. - Nichita Stănescu

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. - Mark Twain

There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny. - Anonymous

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend - William Shakespeare

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. - Homer

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. - Jane Austen

Sarcasm is waster on the young. - Bert McCoy

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum. - Terry Pratchett

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star. - Richelle E. Goodrich

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise. - Unarine Ramaru

As a young girl, and still to this day, I struggle with trying to figure everything out. Figure out why things happen, what they mean, and how they all work together. It sometimes drives me crazy. Not literally, but I do sometimes feel different. Like maybe I think too much. - J.W. Lord

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. - Mark Twain

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. - Garrison Keillor

Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young. - Debasish Mridha

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. - Maya Angelou

I don't believe in magic.'The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will when you see her. - Atticuspoetry

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke. - Edwina Currie

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young. - Louise Erdrich

I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. - William Shakespeare

The Church needs young people because they have vision for the future of the church. - Mor Ignatius Aphrem II

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Since we aim for a healthy life for all, we should teach young girls that their worth can't be validated by dating older rich men, because that is risky for their health. Until we change certain perceptions in society, we will keep fighting the same battles. - Gugu Mona

Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it if we can. - Dolores O'Riordan

And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't. - D.H. Lawrence

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? - Anne Frank

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. - Caesar Augustus

Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigilance might make any disheveled or nubile young haggage ready for the altar in five minutes. - Michelle Franklin

It takes a very long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between. - Phyllis Theroux

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds! - Meryl Streep

I'm just a young guy with big dreams who is working hard to make it on top while many people are waiting for my downfall, they don't support but hate and talk negativity. - Werley Nortreus

You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis - Deyth Banger

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. - Judy Blume

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. - Benjamin Franklin

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books. - Nathan Fillion

Make me young, make me young, make me young! - Kurt Vonnegut

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. - Dorothy Parker

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind. - Joseph Conrad

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

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

For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, I am in no hurry to grow young again. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. - Tom Hiddleston

Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger. - Karon Waddell

Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attitudes,Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken. - Thomas Merton

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. - Robert Byrne

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. - Noah Webster

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. - Robert Benchley

To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I. - Hannah Senesh

Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it. - Jane Smiley

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report that their first sexual intercourse was forced. In rural Malawi, 55 percent of adolescent girls surveyed report that they were often forced to have sex. - Njovana Watts

I sense the joy of young and old,I hear wondrous tales told,Beauty surrounds me as I gaze above,But I am alone for I live without love. - Anonymous

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. - Ambrose Bierce

Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people. - James C. Dobson

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead. - James D. Watson

I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young. - Peter Meinke

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. - Walt Whitman

Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik - Gaston Leroux

I know I have a long way to go but for now I am taking my life one day at a time. Enjoying every minute of my youth as far as I could. I know I am still young but no one is ever too young to have a dream so big to inspire many people. - Diana Rose Morcilla

When you're young, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew. When you're old, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can suck. - Peter James West

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction. (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) - Brandon Sanderson

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are. - Chandan Sharma

Be gentle with the young. - Juvenal

I met a man; broken as can be, A smile upon his face; no shoes upon his feet,He said one thing " young one , you listen clear"The choices you make now; will always reappear,Live to your heart but do wrong to none,Because when your old like me; you'll remember all you have done. - Nikki Rowe

I am convinced that if stories such as these have any lasting value, it is in revealing the kind of work young pulp-writers were doing in those days when rates were low and one had to make a typewriter smoke in order to keep eating. - Hugh B. Cave

Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her - Sarah Stillman

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation. - Henry Johnson Jr

An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience. - Eleanor Brownn

I believehaving a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

HATCHET, n. A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk. "O bury the hatchet, irascible Red, For peace is a blessing," the White Man said. The Savage concurred, and that weapon interred, With imposing rites, in the White Man's head. John Lukkus - Ambrose Bierce

...because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young. - Meg Wolitzer

Give and share knowledge to the young and brave,For knowledge in this world comes for free,All you need is to keep your ears open, senses unbroken, taste buds ringing and keen eyes to see,Learn and help them learn in your lifetime too,So that like me in peace to the world you might say Adieu. - Adhish Mazumder

I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers. - Gabriel Bá

The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant

Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters. - James Hauenstein

Fill your life with love and you will be healthy, young, beautiful and full of energy and strength. - Sunday Adelaja

It’s exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It’s magical! - Elaine Grey

Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up?? - bheng927

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him. - Bernhard Schlink

I was born at a very young age - Kell Jeffery Schwers

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. - Doug Larson

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. - Ann Richards

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there. - Bertolt Brecht

Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills. - Charles Platt

She's young and the world's wide open. - Jason Aldean

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. - Maya Angelou

what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy - Julio Alexi Genao

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. - Rick Polito

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana

Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society? - Robert B. Reich

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is. - Oscar Wilde

Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you, he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy. - Jason Mraz

I want to be like a Supernova; burn bright and die young. - Anonymous

I died last night. Seventy years too young. - Colin Thompson

He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth. - Louisa May Alcott

Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be.That door of the library was the door into meAnd Lorca and Shelley said Come to the feast.Whitechapel Library, Aldgate East. - Bernard Kops

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen. - Shaun Hick

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas. - Will Durant

I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood. - John G. Diefenbaker

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. - Margaret Mead

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. - Salvador Dali

If the young only knew; if the old only could. - French Proverb

The young need discipline and a full bookcase. - Vivienne Westwood

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life. - Nikki Rowe

Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs spectacle snails salivating on the Soma of youth? - Aporva Kala

Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless. - David Attenborough

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - J. K. Rowling

Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff! - Dr. Seuss

I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven - The Cab

You will look young when you feel young, but to simply feel that you are young will not always cause you to feel young. The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought. - Christian D. Larson

No young lady can be jastified in flling in love before the gentleman's love is declared - abhishek vicky

Too young to care; Too old to change. - Hafsa Shah

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. - Margaret Atwood

Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self-motivated! - Stephanie Lahart

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. - Andre Gide

We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me. - Anne Sexton

Youth lasts much longer than young people think. - Marie Joséphine de Suin

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. - Saki

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young? - Tish Grier

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement. - Jane Austen

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. - Ring Lardner

It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

You are never too old or too young to be a leader. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person. - Edward Herrmann

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. - Stanley Kunitz

To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn. - Debasish Mridha

I am still young to keep learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. - Brandon Boyd

Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating. - Dimitris Mita

As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the political climate of our country, the constitution of a family, and the morality of man. What an awesome burden we carried. - Lynda I Fisher

If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes. - Charles Spencer King

We started college having 18 years old young, naive spirit and we left as grown ups, men and women with life long friendships,life partners, it made us who we are whether we like it or not. - Anonymous Young Girl

I’m happiest when I’m with young people. Their wisdom, grief, and optimism motivates me to work harder – and inspires me to be better, more thoughtful and to move with increased reverence. I find joy in children. - Lateefah Simon

When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs. - Günter Grass

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony. - Bertrand Russell

Trust is a delicate idea, held up by time and togetherness. But one person slips and the whole thing shatters. Like glass. and young girls' hearts. - Anonymous

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. - J.K. Rowling

Six pillar advice for young people:Know thy Creator.Know thy sacred soul.Educate thyself.Don’t doubt your dreams.Pursue your passion.Never lose hope. - Laillah Gifty Akita

Young Arab men are not going to walk away from extremism because they can suddenly afford a Slurpee. They will walk away when they can devote themselves to a some call to serve a cause that connects nationalism to dignity and democracy and transcends a lifetime. - David Brooks

They still live. They breathe, they love each other, they find joy in the world around them for no other reason than because they are children. They are resilient. They will always rise above. Always. It is a curious facet of the innocent young. - Amelia Fisher

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love. - Isaac Asimov

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. - Dale Earnhardt

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. - Paul McCartney

Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations. - Gugu Mona

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

How fickle is my young male heart as it avidly jumps from love to love - Ben Mitchell

Tolerance cannot seduce the young. - Emil Cioran

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are - nomad

You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy’s book! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. - Plato

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. - Anne Rice

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. - C.S. Lewis

We are young, life is vivacious, life is fun, let's enjoy it, at the beach with loving sun. - Debasish Mridha

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. - Lev Grossman

said:"Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy wealthy and wise"Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning. E. Haldeman-Julius - Ben Franklin

The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon. - Benjamin R. Smith

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. - Isaac Asimov

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young. - Michelle Franklin

The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. - Kristin Cashore

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. - Eric Hoffer

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? - Naomi Klein

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it easier for him to hand it over - Ivena When Heaven Weeps Ted Dekker

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. - Winston Groom

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many. - Viet Thanh Nguyen

- '' That's nonsense young one, Your dreams are not very logical '' - '' The only non-sense I see here, is a living a life; blinded, By all that could have taken your breath away. - Nikki Rowe

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun. - Lana Del Rey

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. - Logan Pearsall Smith

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so. - Pravinee Hurbungs

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. - Lord Chesterfield

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed. - Coco Chanel

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