We Were Young Quotes

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured. — Shannon A. Thompson

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. — Elton John

We couldn't be friends. We couldn't be enemies.
So what were we? — Rachel E. Carter

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm. — Bill Gates

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway? — Brian Joyce

We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men. — Maggie Young

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy. — Haruki Murakami

It's true: I married my college sweetheart. We were so lucky to find each other at such a young age. — Julie Ann Emery

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. — Daniel Ellsberg

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

In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. — Anthony De Mello

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. — Peter Medawar

Back then we were too young to know that some dreams are impossible ... So we dreamed them anyway, and it made those years feel glorious. — Elizabeth Camden

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor. — Ronald Reagan

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids. — Chely Wright

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band — David Crosby

It didn't matter. I was young and we were together. — Justin Go

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it. — Chuck Klosterman

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it. — Nicole Krauss

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there ...
We were just like you. — Mia Hamm

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet. — Natasha Lyonne

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats

Had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. — Kenny Chesney

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

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

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young. — Jane Asher

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young. — Margaret Atwood

If we could only go back and knock some sense into those kids we once were. — Samantha Young

We laughed at some things because we had grown so much older; we were serious about others because we were still so young. — Beryl Markham

Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves. — Chloe Benjamin

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak. — Kellie Thacker

I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up. — Yoko Ogawa

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old. — Julia Roberts

Still, we were young, and hope has strong roots in
the young, right down to their toes, — V.C. Andrews

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. — Viola Davis

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young. — Wong Kar-Wai

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it. — Lady Gregory

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young ... " I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me? — Jake Gyllenhaal

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever. — Bryan Adams

we met when we were almost young — Leonard Cohen

People say we shouldn't be together were to young to know about forever -Zayn Malik — Zayn Malik

We all have a different image of what old is, and if you were exposed to senior citizens at a young age, as I was, it can color your soul with terror. — Billy Crystal

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. — Augusten Burroughs

We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly. — T.H. White

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other. — Taisha DeAza

Do you remember when we were young and gorgeous? — Emily St. John Mandel

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything. — Courtney E. Martin

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Maybe I'm being too hard on both of us. Shit, we were young and reasonably idealistic. — Stephen King

Once we were young, now we are adult. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To me, still being considered a kid, it can't be too much to ask. We should have the same rights as adults did when they were young. — Richard Louv

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there. — Pete Hautman

The evening that Al and I met became the night that we met. By the time we fell asleep at daybreak we were different people — Ruth Ahmed

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. — Laurell K. Hamilton

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. — Clyde Tombaugh

We were so young and innocent. — Unknown

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us. — Christopher Morley

We were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move. — Chris Bohjalian

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young. — Caroline Kepnes

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy. — Zoot Sims

There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive. — Fritz Leiber

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young. — Hugh Hefner

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. — George Konrad

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air. — Taylor Swift

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic. — Patti Smith

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt. — Michelle Obama

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between. — Phyllis Theroux

We Were young. He didn't love me. He just thought he did. Simple as that.- Blaire Lynn — Abbi Glines

We thought our careers as cosmonauts - we were young then - would end with a flight to Mars. But, you see, life has made some course corrections. — Gherman Titov

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young. — A.E. Housman

Everything seemed so unreal - so supernatural - and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren't human. We never were. (Jessica) — Shannon A. Thompson

It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again. — DeWayne Owens

Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. — Stephen Chbosky

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk. — Andrew Young

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin. — Sammy Davis Jr.

These tools were my parents' way of saying: What you're doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way. — Aspen Matis

When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion. — Markus Persson

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing. — Audrey Niffenegger

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left when we were young, almost too young to remember. Almost. I — Pittacus Lore

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now. — Yao Ming

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness — J.K. Rowling

Stormy, can you believe we were ever so young? — Jenny Han

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent. — Marie Lu

We will able to overcome all that because five of us were together and not alone. — Heo Young-saeng

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. — Andy Taylor

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. — Winston Churchill

When we were strangers, I liked you from afar
when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart — Neil Young

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first. — Gherman Titov

We could say we were young and stupid, but that excuse only lasts so long before you realize that you were selfish and just really big assholes." I — Penelope Douglas

Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream. — Moira Young

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds. — Terris McMahan Grimes