Quotes with young

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  • Larry Bird When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
    Larry Bird
    American basketbal player and coach (1956 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Washington Carver When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Brooke Burke When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bel Powley When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Cary Grant When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Samuel Ullman When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Abbe Pierre When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Billie Jean King When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • George Macdonald When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Louise Erdrich When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Baltasar Gracian When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Carine Roitfeld When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bellamy Young When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Bonnie Wright When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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