At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young. – Margaret Mahy
We’ve been using ‘rejuvenate,’ meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years. – Erin McKean
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young. – Dennis Rodman
We didn’t have the phrase ‘style icon’ when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets – I liked how they dressed – and Catholic school boys. – Patti Smith
I would agree that President Carter didn’t live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign. – Michele Bachmann
In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves… the very young and the very old. – Mike Rounds
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. – Mitch Kapor
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm. – Marina Warner
There’s a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can – hubris, I suppose – without stopping to work out why. – David Mitchell
I’ve always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have. – Paul Walker
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. – Erma Bombeck
I was 15 or 16 when I first saw ‘Once Upon A Time In America,’ so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away. – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, ‘8 Mile’ doesn’t feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it’s the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County. – Elvis Mitchell
Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can’t even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid. – Donal Logue
Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky. – Matt Bevin
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album. – Dr. Dre
When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff – I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young. – Madi Diaz
I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up. – Paloma Faith
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. – Marvin Olasky
Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds. – Clive Sinclair
John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved. – Michele Bachmann
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
