Top 1200 Young Adults Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

If you can help someone become a good young woman or a good young man, they have a better chance of surviving in this business.

If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.

When I was young, I was very blessed to have this insight that my best work would be when I was an older actress. I just always knew that as a young actress.

I'm only 24, which is still young, but I don't think of myself as one of the young lads anymore. I suppose that's how people have always seen me. But there comes a time when you have to take extra responsibility.

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.

Music spoke to me when I was young in such an intimate, empowering, magical way, and I think that music is already doing that for young queer kids.

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

We need to rethink a system that has targeted young people, particularly young people of color, for nonviolent crimes.

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.

We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don't have to despair just because you're young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.

Being young is hard. Being young and queer is even harder, regardless of how accepting your parents or community are.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

I don’t have anger towards women. It’s the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It’s told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young people to ask me that because once they know I'm serious, they'll be willing to ride with me.

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

Basically, if you're a young Canadian now and Trudeau puts this country into $1.5 trillion in debt, you will never have the opportunity that I had as a young Canadian.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.

Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

I have a really big heart for young women - having been one - when there aren't a lot of good examples for young women.

I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

I think it's perfectly fine and interesting to have someone get married at a young age and have kids at a young age.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.