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Young Man Quotes

Youth carries ambitions age can't quite repeat.

These reflections all look backward at a version of the speaker who hadn't yet arrived anywhere. A future senator recalls once only daring to Dream of becoming an alderman.

Go west, young man.

Quotes by Aaron Burr

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

Quotes by Walter F. Mondale

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

Quotes by Sean Elliott

As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.

Quotes by Rickey Medlocke

Disease Quotes

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Quotes by Placido Domingo

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Quotes by Plautus

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

Quotes by Peter Brook

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

Quotes by Om Puri

I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'

Quotes by Leslie Odom, Jr.

Dream Quotes

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Quotes by Joshua Slocum

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

Quotes by John Updike

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

Quotes by Gene Tierney

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

Quotes by Federica Mogherini

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Quotes by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Everything Quotes

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Quotes by E. W. Howe

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

Quotes by David Morrissey

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Quotes by Courtney B. Vance

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

Quotes by Ben Lewin

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Quotes by Arthur Balfour

Frequently Asked Questions

What are these young man quotes about?
They're reflections looking back at being a young man, from political ambitions and health scares to what a poem, or a moment on a ship, can only mean at a certain age.
Why do people search for young man quotes?
Readers often want language for reminiscing about youth, whether their own or someone else's, especially the ambitions and vulnerabilities that only show up early in life.
Is there a quote about political ambition as a young man?
Yes. One speaker recalls once only daring to Dream of becoming an alderman as a young man, long before actually becoming an attorney general and vice-presidential nominee.
Does a quote mention illness in youth?
One does, describing feeling healthy and invincible as a young man right up until a kidney disease diagnosis changed that sense of certainty.
What's a related quotes page worth checking?
The Everything quotes page complements this one well, since both circle around how much can still feel possible, or suddenly uncertain, in youth.

A poet goes further, arguing a certain crystallization in a poem belongs only to the young man, not his older self. Whether it's ambition, health, or naivety, these lines treat youth as a window that closes Far sooner than anyone expects.