Top 1200 Young Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

I specially want to have young women not to wait as I did until my children were grown, but young women to come in to gain their seniority so they could be respected leaders at a much earlier age. It's important for all women to see young women who share their experience whether it's as a working mom with young children, who understands the struggle and the aspirations of young women in a similar situation. And if they don't have family and they're pursuing their career women should see that as well.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

If you are a young, white, straight man in today's society, you are in trouble.

I have never met a man who I could still say, 'That is the love of my life.' Stuart is. I never met anybody as full of love and giving as this young man.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted as a child and as a young man. I realized it maybe 30 years ago. I thought, "This is unreal. This has happened as I expected it to, as I'd pictured it." My whole life has been like that and I'm fascinated by that power that we all have. That we create our lives as we go.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Fairness and equality means that what you are never limits who you can be. It means that a young African-American man like my father can start a business with $500 and a dream. It means that a young African-American woman like my mother can walk into European fashion houses with her head held high and be treated with respect.

Anyone who knows me back from when I was young knows me and my siblings supported Man United, we would pay to go and watch Man United play.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think.

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Drugs nearly killed my brother when he was a young man and I hate them. He fought back. And I'm really proud of him. But I learned something in going through that long nightmare with our family. And I can tell you, something has happened to some of our young people. They simply don't think these drugs are dangerous anymore. Or they think the risk is acceptable.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

I was an earnest young man who just wanted to make music.

When I was young, we used to do drills to get a feel for the man you were marking.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

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

You tell your guy friends you got engaged, it's like hearing someone died. 'What happened man? Wow. He was so young, man. What happened? He had his whole life ahead of him. Wow, I just saw him yesterday.

Young man, make your name worth something.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

I was named first-team Jersey Shore by the Asbury Park Press, the paper I used to deliver as a young boy. I got to Houston and Coach Williams invited me to walk on the golf team. I was the 18th man on an 18-man golf team.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.