Young quotes

“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.” Douglas MacArthur

“We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.” Barack Obama

“I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.” Barack Obama

“I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.” Henry Miller

“And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.” Michelle Obama

“When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” Michelle Obama

“My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.” Dolly Parton

“As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?” Chuck Palahniuk

“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.” Pope John Paul II

“I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.” Mitt Romney

“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.” Theodore Roosevelt

“I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.” Henry Rollins

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?” Anne Frank

“I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'” Richard Dawkins

“As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'” Bill Cosby

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” Francis Bacon

“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon

“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” Francis Bacon

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.” John Rockefeller

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.” Carl Sagan

“When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.” Michael Jordan

“It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.” Michael Jordan

“I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.” Paris Hilton

“By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.” Paris Hilton

“When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.” Paris Hilton

“The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.” Albert Schweitzer

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.” Jonathan Swift