Young famous quotes

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Religion #Atheism #Young

I'm young but I'm not stupid.
-- Abby Elliott

#Stupid #Young #Not Stupid

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
-- Abu Bakr

#Men #Sin #Young

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
-- Agatha Christie

#Young #Enjoy #Young Women

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#People #Parent #Young

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Sweet #Green #Young

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.
-- Aki Kaurismaki

#Ideas #Baths #Young

Now I know why tigers eat their young.
-- Al Capone

#Young #Tigers

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.
-- Alan Jackson

#Grew Up #Grew #Young

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Children #Littles #Young

I started playing music when I was really young.
-- Aleksa Palladino

#Playing Music #Young

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Aging #Young

Memory is what makes us young or old.
-- Alfred de Musset

#Memories #Young

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Past #Men #Young

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
-- Alice Walker

#Responsibility #Care #Young

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
-- Ally Carter

#Wise #Young

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Want #Young #Die Young

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Together #Young

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Actors #Young

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
-- Amy Tan

#Pain #Flesh #Young

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Writing #Young #Young Women

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Should #Young #Scholar

I loved dancing as a young girl.
-- Andie MacDowell

#Girl #Dancing #Young

Young man, make your name worth something.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Men #Names #Young

One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Men #Causes #Young

I've become a much more serious young insect.
-- Andrew Denton

#Serious #Insects #Young

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.
-- Andrew Shue

#Vision #Life Is #Young

There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?
-- Andrew Tobias

#People #Rich #Young

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.
-- Ann Romney

#Mother #Boys #Young

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#World #Forget #Young

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.
-- Anna Chancellor

#Innocent #Young

Like any young person, I do what I want.
-- Anna Kournikova

#Sports #Want #Young

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.
-- Anna Lee

#Years #Lasts #Young

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.
-- Anne Desclos

#Kinky #Weapons #Young

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
-- Anne Frank

#Telling The Truth #Young #Not Afraid

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
-- Anne Frank

#Young

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).
-- Anneli Jaatteenmaki

#Programming #Young #Productive

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
-- Ansel Elgort

#Actors #Young #Terrible

I'm glad I'm not young anymore. I don't want to start all over again.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Want #Young #Glad

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Black #Actors #Young

It occured to me that we will never be young again.
-- Anthony Swofford

#Young

I am young and avid for glory.
-- Antoine Lavoisier

#Avid #Glory #Young

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
-- Antonia Fraser

#Mother #Young

You are quite unnecessary, young man!
-- Antonin Artaud

#Men #Unnecessary #Young

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
-- Antony Jay

#Men #Young #Grows

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

#Children #Saint #Young

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
-- Archie Shepp

#Generations #Young

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Should #Young

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
-- Aristotle

#Ornaments #Shame #Young

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.
-- Armistead Maupin

#Care #Enough #Young

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Chess #Talent #Young

Always have old memories, and young hopes.
-- Arsene Houssaye

#Memories #Old Memories #Young

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.
-- Arsene Houssaye

#Heart #Youth #Young

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
-- Arthur Balfour

#Men #Promise #Young

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Justice #Young #Feels

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.
-- Arthur Darvill

#Dad #Guitar #Young

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Death #Ideas #Young

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Looks #Hey #Young

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Young

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
-- Ashley Wagner

#Age #Young

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Who Cares #Care #Young

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
-- Augustus

#Men #Aging #Young

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Hope #Young #Wells

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
-- B. B. King

#Young #Performing #Kicks

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
-- Balthazar Getty

#Kids #Typical #Young

I am a regular young man surrounded...
-- Barrington Irving

#Men #African American #Young

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
-- Bear Grylls

#Boys #Modern Life #Young

But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
-- Beatrice Dalle

#Attention #Young

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young
-- Beatrice Sparks

#One Day #Young

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
-- Bel Kaufman

#Language #Cliche #Young

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Too Much #Young

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Youth #Fortune #Young

Genius, when young, is divine.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Genius #Divine #Young

An old young man, will be a young old man.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Time #Men #Young

Television is a young person's medium.
-- Bernard Cornwell

#Television #Young #Mediums

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells
-- Bettie Page

#Shells #Young #Young Women

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
-- Betty Smith

#Wish #Wonderful #Young

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.
-- Big Sean

#People #Young #Feels

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
-- Bill Parcells

#Loss #Guy #Young

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.
-- Bill Rancic

#Cancer #Young #Breasts

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
-- Bill Wyman

#Fashion #People #Young

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
-- Bill Wyman

#Years #Radio #Young

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
-- Billie Holiday

#Trying #Armstrong #Young

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Successful #Young

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
-- Billy Higgins

#People #Vision #Young

Only the good die young.
-- Billy Joel

#Dense #Young #Die Young

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
-- Billy Zane

#Care #Enough #Young

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
-- Binyavanga Wainaina

#People #London #Young

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.
-- Blaize Clement

#Easy #Young #Guts

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
-- Bob Hope

#People #Young #Older People

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
-- Bob Mould

#Acoustics #Young #Shows

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!
-- Bob Proctor

#People #Old People #Young

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
-- Bobby Bowden

#Nfl #Young

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
-- Bobby Sands

#Play #Republican #Young

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
-- Boris Spassky

#Champion #Saws #Young

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.
-- Bow Wow

#Trying #Television #Young

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.
-- Bow Wow

#Mother #Careers #Young

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
-- Brady Corbet

#Age #Film #Young

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.
-- Brandy Norwood

#Young #Feels

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.
-- Brendan Behan

#People #Envy #Young