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Young Quotes - Page 52

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.260, Penguin

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.7, e-artnow

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

Song: Much Too Young, Album: Garth Brooks, 1989

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

"'You Don't Have to Lose Yourself': A Conversation with Gail Sheehy". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 1, 2014.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

When I was young, boys didn't type.

"The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

"This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

I am a young guy, but I have a winning mentality.

Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2005.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

"Emma Roberts and Freddie Highmore on Their New Film, Summer Reading, and Teen Lushes". Interview with S.T. VanAirsdale, movieline.com. June 16, 2011.

Marriage is not a game for the young.

"Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on mating, matrimony, and the downside of writing a freakishly popular book". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. January 22, 2010.