The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
Mickey Rourke

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
Black Elk

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
Kevin Bacon

I am not young enough to know everything.
James M. Barrie

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
Bella Abzug

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi Minh

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Abigail Van Buren

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.
Maurice Strong

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
David Foster Wallace

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
Alvin Ailey

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
Al Sharpton