Young Quotes - page 3

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. View quote
Henry James
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. View quote
Steven Brust
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. View quote
Margaret Mead
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. View quote
John Glenn
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. View quote
Andrew Wiles
America is not a young land it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. View quote
William S. Burroughs
That's the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. View quote
Philip Pullman
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. View quote
Emil Cioran
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. View quote
Maya Angelou
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. (Joseph Addison)
When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible. View quote
George W. Bush
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. View quote
Timothy Leary
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. View quote
John Millington Synge
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. View quote
Colette
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. View quote
Sherwood Anderson
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements. View quote
Aravind Adiga
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young. View quote
Oscar Wilde
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. (Thomas Moore)
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you not to grow old. View quote
Neil Kinnock
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith