When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
Chief Joseph

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
Mick Jagger

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
Darrell Royal

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
Brian Clough

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
Meryl Streep

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Meryl Streep

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
James Cagney

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
Joseph Addison

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor