Quotes about young
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“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) British-American anthropologist

“You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn
streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Girl, Problem

“And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Life, God, Way

“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 (1921–1944) Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II

Love, War, Light, Cry

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Happiness, Beauty, Boy, Appearance

“May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Truth, Courage, Light, Strong

“Adron! Don’t you hurt him. (Kiara)
I’m not going to hurt him, Mom. I’m going to kill him. (Young Adron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: In Other Worlds

Moms, Hurt

“I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.”

Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor

Thinking, Suffering, Sun

“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) Scots poet, novelist and literary critic

Source: Adventures Among Books

Men, People, Books, Reading

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

As quoted in An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983) by George H. Culp and Herbert N. Nickles, p. 190; also in Youth Quake: A Manifesto (2002) by Cousin Sam, p. 31

“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 (1775–1817) English novelist

Source: Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

Family, Way

“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.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Life, Happiness, Water, Heart

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Life, Loneliness, Night

“Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel
Come get up my baby.
Look at that sky, life's begun
Nights are warm and the days are young
Come get up my baby.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Golden Years
Song lyrics, Station to Station (1976)

Life, Angels, Baby, Night

“That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Sense

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Happiness, People, Thinking, Past

“There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Valley of Silence

“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Chance, Hurt

“But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Spring, Personality

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Beauty, Thinking

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Random House Incorporated, 2008
Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Reading

“Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Secret of Platform 13

Variant: It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.
Source: The Secret of Platform 13

People, Personality

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Way

“The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

People

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) Czech bookwriter and writer

Death, Girl, Thinking

“Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

People, Understanding, Problem, Thinking

“You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Feeling

“Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Variant: A Very Short Song

Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
Source: Enough Rope

Love, Sadness, Thinking, Heart

“the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Men

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, Way, Personality

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Joy

“The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Given

Dreams, Grass

“I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

Personality

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl

Men, Girl, Intelligence, Fashion

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Men, Marriage, Books, Waiting

“How young can you die of old age?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Age

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

People, Beauty, Parent, Time

“… so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Love, Imagination, Time

“I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Lonesome Gods

People, Age, Thinking

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Life, Time

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”

Hilary Mantel book An Experiment in Love

Source: An Experiment in Love

Time

“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old…

- Wang Lung”

Pearl S. Buck book The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

Life

“I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

People, Religion

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

People

“I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.”

Joanna Russ book How to Suppress Women's Writing

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

Health, Personality

“She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Drowning Instinct

Beauty, Girl, Heart

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Love, People

“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

People, Feeling, Sleep

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

Source: Giovanni's Room

“So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Thinking

“Myst hasn't returned yet, But you know that, or else you'd both be naked and fornicating on the front lawn"
"The night's young. Give us time, and it was a field a mile away."

A Valkyrie and Nikolai Wroth pg 322”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

Time, Night

“Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals

& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood

Do you know we are ruled by t. v.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Source: An American Prayer

“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”

Terry Brooks The Wishsong of Shannara

Source: The Wishsong of Shannara

Stupidity

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

People

“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“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 (1942) American radio host and writer

"Post to the Host" (July 2005) http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2005/07/ <br class="br">Context: Journalism is a good place for any writer to start — the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. 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.

“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Stupidity, Sex, Confidence

“My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”

Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt

Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Context: My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

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