Quotes about young
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“Jesus died so young and yet he promised immortality to those who believe in his teachings.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

Women

“I was amazed when I learned that in the West so many young people are on drugs. I tried to understand the reason for this. Why? The answer is, “because in the family there is nobody who cares about them.””

Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin

When receiving the Nobel peace price in 1979. As quoted from Hitchens, C. (2012). The missionary position: Mother Theresa in theory and practice.
Source: Fathers and mothers are so busy they have no time. Young parents work, and the child lives in the street and goes his own way. We speak of peace. These are the things that threaten peace. I think that today peace is threatened by abortion, too, which is a true war, the direct killing of a child by its own mother. In the Bible we read that God clearly said: “Even though a mother did forget her infant, I will not forget him.”Today, abortion is the worst evil, and the greatest enemy of peace. We who are here today were wanted by our parents. We would not be here if our parents had not wanted us.We want children, and we love them. But what about the other millions? Many are concerned about the children, like those in Africa, who die in great numbers either from hunger or for other reasons. But millions of children die intentionally, by the will of their mothers. Because if a mother can kill her own child, what will prevent us from killing ourselves, or one another? Nothing.

People, Family, Understanding, Learning

“Investing in education means helping children and young people to discover and appreciate the most important values and to have the courage to look to their future with hope.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2021

Children, People, Education, Hope

“Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

Passion

“O, wither’d is the garland of the war!
The soldier’s pole is fall'n; young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remark
Beneath the visiting moon.”

Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt

As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, (1623)

Men, War, Girl, Boy

““Every time I communicate with young people, you charge me with your energy, fill my heart with joy. I know very well that each of you is eager to serve our dear Motherland and people. I value you immensely as the greatest wealth, priceless treasure of Uzbekistan.””

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957) President of Uzbekistan (2016-present)

From the greeting speech of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the Youth Forum of Uzbekistan.
Source: https://mirziyo.uz/en/yoshlar-ozbekistonning-eng-katta-boyligi-bebaho-xazinasi/

People, Communication, Time, Heart

“How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!"
And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“… alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.”

Lloyd Alexander book The Castle of Llyr

Source: The Castle of Llyr

“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 (1933–2006) American politician

People

“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Life, Happiness, Water, Heart

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

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

“Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.

"Yes… " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

Wine

“Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Children

“A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

Girl, Evil

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables

Love, Shoe, Soul, Star

“Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?”
“I… had trouble concentrating.”
“So you came up on deck,” Jasnah said, “to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this toyour concentration?”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Men, Reading

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

World

“TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

Source: Major Barbara

Men

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Life, God, Loss

“I like em young, dumb, and hung." Reign the Radiant”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Diplomatic Immunity

Source: Diplomatic Immunity

Beauty, Chance

“That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.'

They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Parting

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Men, Age, Fools

“I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Solitude, Reading

“At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.”

André Breton book Anthology of Black Humor

Source: Anthology of Black Humor

Beauty, Imagination, Suffering

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

Sense

“… the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Time, Personality

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”

Isabel Allende book City of the Beasts

Source: City of the Beasts

Feeling

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Love, Life, Men

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Feeling, Personality

“There’s a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: persistence only proves persistence—it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn’t mean you are special—it means he is troubled.”

Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Love, Life, Women, Learning

“Why did you say you believed me?"
In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.
"Because I trust you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Girl

“One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Burning Lamp

Way, Future

“But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

People, Intelligence, Knowledge

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

Variant: When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

People

“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Source: Fall on Your Knees

Love, World, Forgetting

“? Is that boy crazy?"
"Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think," Sazed said with a smile. "However, this is hardly unexpected. Haven't you noticed how he stares at you when you enter a room?"
"I thought he was just creepy.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Men, Age, Smile, Boy

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love, People, Disappointment, Heart

“Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Question

“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 (1974) American fantasy novelist

Books, Personality

“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.”

John Webster The Duchess of Malfi

Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Source: The Duchess of Malfi

“That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.”

Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright

Source: Man With Bags

Suicide

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Women, Intelligence

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

Muriel Spark book Memento Mori

Source: Memento Mori

People

“Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.”

Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone

[Street, 1868] ( p. 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82) <br class="br">Also in Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century https://books.google.com/books?id=E2S3nWp-lAgC&pg=PT61 by Leonard Sweet [Zondervan, 2009, ISBN 0-310-83380-9] <br class="br">Source: The Moonstone (1868)

World, Tear

“Only the good die young.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them

besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me

and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out

but not
in
mine

thank
you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Men, Way, Girl, Hell

“There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."

Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

People, Problem

“Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Lie, Lying, Question

“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.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Life, Pleasure, Girl

“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 book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

Justice, Feeling, Time

“I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Men, Drink, Dance

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

Way

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Dolly Levi, in Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAEJ8VP0rMYC&q=%22Money+is+like+manure+it's+not+worth+a+thing+unless+it's+spread+around+encouraging+young+things+to+grow%22&pg=PA110#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Matchmaker (1954)

Money

“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”

Dave Eggers book What Is the What

Variant: If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Source: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006), Ch. 21, pp. 317-318
Source: What Is the What
Context: I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Love, Way, Thinking, Time

“The night you gave me my birthday party… you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Birthday, Tree, Night

“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”

Maya Angelou book I Shall Not Be Moved

Source: I Shall Not Be Moved

Love

“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 (1945) Author, journalist and computer programmer

People, World, Education, Understanding

“To a Young Poet

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Collected Poems

Bird, Time

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Children, Evil

“When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.”

Dennis Lehane book Gone, Baby, Gone

Source: Gone, Baby, Gone

God, Children, World, Evil

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Women, World, Way, Understanding

“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Love, Hate, World, Faith

“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Stupidity, Thinking

“When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“… if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Heart

“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Time, Christ, Drawing

“Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Girl, Freedom

“And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Girl

“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“… choose to believe in your own myth
your own glamour
your own spell
a young woman who does this
(even if she is just pretending)
has everything….”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: How to (Un)cage a Girl

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”

Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage

Source: The Amateur Marriage

People

“There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Beauty, Angels, Thinking

“Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book Herland

Source: Herland

“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

Behavior, Parent, Time

“For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Hell

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

As quoted in The Truth in Words (2005) by Neal Zero

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

George Bernard Shaw Fanny's First Play

Source: Fanny's First Play

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right."

—The law of Badger Lords”

Brian Jacques book Lord Brocktree

Source: Lord Brocktree

Justice, Law

“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Life, Death

“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Youth, Age, Past, Future

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variant: You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Art, Joy, Training

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Way

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Men, War, Home, Fight