Once I Was Young Quotes

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear. — Hilary Mantel

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was young once, you know. Truth be told, I still am. Now, if I can convince my mirror. — Julie Lessman

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She'll probably want to, once I show her how; as near as I can make out, most women, even young ones like her, like to cook: it's an instinct. — Philip K. Dick

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more. — Roger Ebert

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. — Megan Chance

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now. — Abigail Thomas

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being. — Brigham Young

I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81 — Emery Lord

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young. — Dominique Dawes

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September. — Claire Hennessy

Just remember, you can only be young and dumb once. And that is a fine specimen to be young and dumb with. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

And the Law that once contained impossible demands
Thou Shalt Not ...
actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you. — Wm. Paul Young

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff. — Ben Barnes

I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants — Elizabeth Young

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. — Kim Young-sam

Was once on trauma duty when a young man about twenty years old was rolled in, shot in the buttock. — Atul Gawande

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! — V.C. Andrews

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh — Kim Cormack

I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago.
We all did. Once I was as young as you. — George R R Martin

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung. — Richard Henry Stoddard

Although richer and Number 1 in the charts at this very moment, I've come full circle; once again I am the lanky, ginger, friendless geek.- Egg — Jamie Scallion

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once a man I was leaving told me I could go if I would leave my skin behind. I was so young I didn't even know that I was wonderful.. — Ellen Gilchrist

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored. — Lev Grossman

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life. — Abigail Thomas

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon. — Charles Lamb

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts. — Robert Frost

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

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson! — Richard Branson

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again. — Rick Chiantaretto

True, I only properly started talking with Todd half an hour ago, but every instance of undying love was only half an hour young, once upon a time. — David Mitchell

America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. — Nancy Gibbs

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing. — Stella Young

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then. — Will Self

Flannery O'Connor once told a young friend to "push as hard as the age that pushes against you. — Tish Harrison Warren

One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often. — Louis De Bernieres

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago. — Timothy Schaffert

We can only be young once. But we can always be immature. — Dave Barry

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again. — David Housholder

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do. — Chad Harbach

I once heard someone say, I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young. — Diana Vreeland

You're only young once. That is all society can stand. — Jane Seabrook

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous. — Angus Young

When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains. — Christian Slater

What it is
is the memory of a dance
a song you heard long ago
to hear it is to be young again
and for once
for once you are happy — Julio Alexi Genao

He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age. — Yann Martel

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting. — Daria Snadowsky

Even a fool gets to be young once. — Frank Lucas

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had. — Coleman Young

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. — Neil Gaiman

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one. — Michael Jackson

Then the concerts came to an end, the weather turned bad and my girls left Balbec, not all at once, as the swallows leave, but within the same week. — Marcel Proust

To waste
this heart once more
& have you
here, not silent, only
quiet, as before. — Kevin Young

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal. — Young-Ha Kim

It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful. — Cherie Priest

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. — Chris Wooding

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

He kissed her stopping her words at once. A pronounced number of gasps resonated across the room. — Terry Spear