Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.
- Keith Ablow
I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without
the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality,
and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future.
- Peter Ackroyd
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
- Jodi Picoult
Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it."
"Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest.
"Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.
- Cassandra Clare
The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.
- Cassandra Clare
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
- Stephen Ambrose
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty.
I shall not try to emphasize the point. I am only explaining why I was dissatisfied then and have been ever since. I speak of that only that you may understand why I have been impelled to try to tell the simple story over again.
- Sherwood Anderson
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
- Piers Anthony
Of all the Hathaway sisters," Cam said equably, "Beatrix is the one most suited to choose her own husband. I trust her judgment."
Beatrix gave him a brilliant smile. "Thank you, Cam."
"What are you thinking?" Leo demanded of his brother-in-law. "You can't trust Beatrix's judgment."
"Why not?"
"She's too young," Leo said.
"I'm twenty-three," Beatrix protested. "In dog years I'd be dead.
- Lisa Kleypas
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
- Richard Bach
I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.
- Tyra Banks
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
- Gary Barlow
I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes..."
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
- Lewis Carroll
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it's only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
- Albert Camus
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
- John Steinbeck
You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
- John Steinbeck
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
- Erma Bombeck
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.
- William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- William Shakespeare
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
- Edie Brickell
An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
- Connie Brockway
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
- Garth Brooks
God help us for we knew the worst too young.
- Rudyard Kipling
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
- Dan Brown
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
- Jeff Buckley
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
- Duke Ellington
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
- Frank Cady
Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth.
"Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
- Rachel Caine
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.
- Max Cannon
So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.
I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."
That's nice," she said..
- Orson Scott Card
The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.
- Sarah Chalke
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
- Kinky Friedman
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase "young adult" too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He's caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.
- David Levithan
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
- Broderick Crawford
I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.
- Santosh Kalwar
I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
- Marc Davis
And what do you leave behind?.... Who do you leave with only memories of you? How many hearts do you break when you risk too much and die too young?
- Shannon Delany
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
- Don Delillo
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
- Graham Greene
I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
- Graham Greene
It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when Francis was now where he had always been told there was no more terror and no more--darkness.
- Graham Greene
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.
- Lauren Destefano
5. My husband's words found their mark, and I recalled something that Zilpah had told me when I was a child in the red tent, and far too young to understand her meaning. "We are all born of the same mother," she said. After a lifetime, I knew that to be true.
- Anita Diamant
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
- Charles Dickens
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
- Elaine Dundy
Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.'...
For what?'...
For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
- Elaine Dundy
What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it.
Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?
- Gerald Durrell
I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn't imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn't want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a futureor nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too
- Beth Fantaskey
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
- John Irving
The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- Roger Federer
I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young to hear about it. Can you imagine my mother not knowing what Kotex are for and dusting the house with them? Well, her mother can just tell her what they are for. I'm not getting into the facts of life. I haven't heard one fact of life I like yet.
- Fannie Flagg
This is where he should say that he is in love with me, that I have changed his life and that he loves me for it. But he doesn't. Is it because he is shy? Or because he is too young to say such a thing? Or is it merely because he does not love me? The worst of it is, I am falling in love with him.
- Alex Flinn
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know..
- Neil Gaiman
At the time I didn't realize their lie was a defense against the fear they had of losing their mother. I was still too young to understand that most lies were not about stealing or fighting or cheating but were just ways by which a person shrinks their whole world down to a size they can keep protected in the palm of one hand.
- Jack Gantos
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
- Alexi Giannoulias
...These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-"
"That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment
- Gail Giles
Tad they were too young to die...My Mom was a spitfirea total accident waiting to happen. I'm like herI can trip over nothing." Tad chuckled acknowledging the thought. "My father...he was more serious. He used to give me lectures like no tomorrow, he had a strong sense of who I should bewho I wanted to be and how to guide me, and he was my best friend. It seems like everything I love is just out of my reach now.
- Cassandra Giovanni
At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.
- Delta Goodrem
Too big to cry too young to laugh..
- Abraham Lincoln
When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess
- Nick Hornby
You're never too young to die.
- Anthony Horowitz
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
- Kin Hubbard
Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.
- Tim Hudson
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
- Hale Irwin
I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.
- Jenna Jameson
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on th subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.
- Tove Jansson
Oh, you mean he's dead,' said Grandmother. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time. [p. 131]
- Tove Jansson
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
- Michael Lewis
I talked to a mother of nine last night, and I thought, "Nine is nine years too young to be a mother."
- Jarod Kintz
When I was a little boy, say 17 months old, I lived in the forest. I was raised by bears. We had a good time. We laughed a lot. At least I think we laughed a lot. I can't really say, because I was too young to remember.
- Jarod Kintz
He told me he had a wife and daughter, and then he showed me a picture of an 8-year-old girl, to which I said, "Don't you think she's a bit too young to be a wife and mother?" Fucking pedophiles.
- Jarod Kintz
My uncle missed the sixties. Not because he was too young. He just simply slept through them.
- Jarod Kintz
Just because I was too young, it doesn't mean I cannot do something.
- Alanda Kariza
I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.
- W B Yeats
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
- Sally Kellerman
And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.
- Charles Kingsley
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
- Barbara Kingsolver
You're too young to decide to live forever.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
- William Standish Knowles
There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.
- Shia Labeouf
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- C S Lewis
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
- Maya Lin
I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.
- Jeremy London
I'm too young to die."
"Yeah, and I'm too well known."
-Droma and Han Solo
- James Luceno
Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.
- Ann Marie Macdonald
Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than they're worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
- Cormac Mccarthy
It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!"
"Mom!"Leo cries,turning bright red.
- Wendy Mass
Why was she doing this to herself? She was too young to be locked away in this grim castle, weighed down with responsibility that was not hers
to shoulder. She should be at parties, being feted, dancing, and enjoying
herself. Or be surrounded by bairns. My bairns, he thought fiercely.
- Monica Mccarty
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk
- Frank Mccourt
We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
- Roger Mcgough
Too young,too young,she chanted to herself.
Wrong,of course.
I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.
- Stephenie Meyer
I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
- Stephenie Meyer
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
- Dominic Monaghan
She's too young. Too innocent.
Too human. For what I'm becoming.
- Karen Marie Moning
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
- Gale Norton
When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.
- Janette Oke
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
- Ehud Olmert
I'm aware that Chloe may have no memory of me at all. She's too young. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her.
- Randy Pausch
When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.
- Allison Pearson
In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.
- Ayn Rand
You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
- Jim Rogers
...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
- Patrick Rothfuss
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
- Sharon Salzberg
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
- Bobby Sands
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;
Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head....
You are too young to fall asleep for ever;
And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.
- Siegfried Sassoon
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
- John Saxon
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
- Gerald Scarfe
There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.
- Jason Segel
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
- Anton Seidl
I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of.
- Rob Sheffield
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.
- Paullina Simons
There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
- Tarsem Singh
My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
- Emmitt Smith
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
- Marla Sokoloff
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
- Catherine Helen Spence
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
- Joanna Trollope
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.
- Danielle Trussoni
She's fifteen!"
Nash shrugged. "That's just a number. It doesn't say anything about her."
"It says something pretty damn funny about your IQ!" I said, and he opened his mouth to retort, but I spoke over him. "Fifteen is too young to drive, too young to get a legal job, too young to sign a lease, and obviously too young to pick a boyfriend with half a brain.
- Rachel Vincent
I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
- Julie Walters
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
- Paul Westerberg
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
- William Wilberforce
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
- Saul Williams
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
- Thomas Willis
If you didn't like it, why didn't you quit?
To do what? Wasn't anything I knew better than farming. I was cursed, that was the problem. Just because I didn't like it didn't mean I wasn't good at it...It's a curse all right, you're just too young to know about that sort of thing. To be good at something you don't care about?
- David Wroblewski
- Keith Ablow
I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without
the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality,
and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future.
- Peter Ackroyd
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
- Jodi Picoult
Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it."
"Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest.
"Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.
- Cassandra Clare
The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.
- Cassandra Clare
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
- Stephen Ambrose
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty.
I shall not try to emphasize the point. I am only explaining why I was dissatisfied then and have been ever since. I speak of that only that you may understand why I have been impelled to try to tell the simple story over again.
- Sherwood Anderson
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
- Piers Anthony
Of all the Hathaway sisters," Cam said equably, "Beatrix is the one most suited to choose her own husband. I trust her judgment."
Beatrix gave him a brilliant smile. "Thank you, Cam."
"What are you thinking?" Leo demanded of his brother-in-law. "You can't trust Beatrix's judgment."
"Why not?"
"She's too young," Leo said.
"I'm twenty-three," Beatrix protested. "In dog years I'd be dead.
- Lisa Kleypas
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
- Richard Bach
I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.
- Tyra Banks
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
- Gary Barlow
I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes..."
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
- Lewis Carroll
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it's only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
- Albert Camus
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
- John Steinbeck
You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
- John Steinbeck
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
- Erma Bombeck
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.
- William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- William Shakespeare
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
- Edie Brickell
An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
- Connie Brockway
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
- Garth Brooks
God help us for we knew the worst too young.
- Rudyard Kipling
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
- Dan Brown
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
- Jeff Buckley
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
- Duke Ellington
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
- Frank Cady
Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth.
"Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
- Rachel Caine
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.
- Max Cannon
So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.
I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."
That's nice," she said..
- Orson Scott Card
The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.
- Sarah Chalke
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
- Kinky Friedman
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase "young adult" too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He's caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.
- David Levithan
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
- Broderick Crawford
I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.
- Santosh Kalwar
I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
- Marc Davis
And what do you leave behind?.... Who do you leave with only memories of you? How many hearts do you break when you risk too much and die too young?
- Shannon Delany
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
- Don Delillo
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
- Graham Greene
I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
- Graham Greene
It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when Francis was now where he had always been told there was no more terror and no more--darkness.
- Graham Greene
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.
- Lauren Destefano
5. My husband's words found their mark, and I recalled something that Zilpah had told me when I was a child in the red tent, and far too young to understand her meaning. "We are all born of the same mother," she said. After a lifetime, I knew that to be true.
- Anita Diamant
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
- Charles Dickens
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
- Elaine Dundy
Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.'...
For what?'...
For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
- Elaine Dundy
What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it.
Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?
- Gerald Durrell
I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn't imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn't want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a futureor nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too
- Beth Fantaskey
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
- John Irving
The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- Roger Federer
I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young to hear about it. Can you imagine my mother not knowing what Kotex are for and dusting the house with them? Well, her mother can just tell her what they are for. I'm not getting into the facts of life. I haven't heard one fact of life I like yet.
- Fannie Flagg
This is where he should say that he is in love with me, that I have changed his life and that he loves me for it. But he doesn't. Is it because he is shy? Or because he is too young to say such a thing? Or is it merely because he does not love me? The worst of it is, I am falling in love with him.
- Alex Flinn
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know..
- Neil Gaiman
At the time I didn't realize their lie was a defense against the fear they had of losing their mother. I was still too young to understand that most lies were not about stealing or fighting or cheating but were just ways by which a person shrinks their whole world down to a size they can keep protected in the palm of one hand.
- Jack Gantos
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
- Alexi Giannoulias
...These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-"
"That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment
- Gail Giles
Tad they were too young to die...My Mom was a spitfirea total accident waiting to happen. I'm like herI can trip over nothing." Tad chuckled acknowledging the thought. "My father...he was more serious. He used to give me lectures like no tomorrow, he had a strong sense of who I should bewho I wanted to be and how to guide me, and he was my best friend. It seems like everything I love is just out of my reach now.
- Cassandra Giovanni
At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.
- Delta Goodrem
Too big to cry too young to laugh..
- Abraham Lincoln
When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess
- Nick Hornby
You're never too young to die.
- Anthony Horowitz
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
- Kin Hubbard
Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.
- Tim Hudson
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
- Hale Irwin
I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.
- Jenna Jameson
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on th subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.
- Tove Jansson
Oh, you mean he's dead,' said Grandmother. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time. [p. 131]
- Tove Jansson
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
- Michael Lewis
I talked to a mother of nine last night, and I thought, "Nine is nine years too young to be a mother."
- Jarod Kintz
When I was a little boy, say 17 months old, I lived in the forest. I was raised by bears. We had a good time. We laughed a lot. At least I think we laughed a lot. I can't really say, because I was too young to remember.
- Jarod Kintz
He told me he had a wife and daughter, and then he showed me a picture of an 8-year-old girl, to which I said, "Don't you think she's a bit too young to be a wife and mother?" Fucking pedophiles.
- Jarod Kintz
My uncle missed the sixties. Not because he was too young. He just simply slept through them.
- Jarod Kintz
Just because I was too young, it doesn't mean I cannot do something.
- Alanda Kariza
I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.
- W B Yeats
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
- Sally Kellerman
And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.
- Charles Kingsley
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
- Barbara Kingsolver
You're too young to decide to live forever.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
- William Standish Knowles
There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.
- Shia Labeouf
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- C S Lewis
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
- Maya Lin
I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.
- Jeremy London
I'm too young to die."
"Yeah, and I'm too well known."
-Droma and Han Solo
- James Luceno
Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.
- Ann Marie Macdonald
Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than they're worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
- Cormac Mccarthy
It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!"
"Mom!"Leo cries,turning bright red.
- Wendy Mass
Why was she doing this to herself? She was too young to be locked away in this grim castle, weighed down with responsibility that was not hers
to shoulder. She should be at parties, being feted, dancing, and enjoying
herself. Or be surrounded by bairns. My bairns, he thought fiercely.
- Monica Mccarty
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk
- Frank Mccourt
We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
- Roger Mcgough
Too young,too young,she chanted to herself.
Wrong,of course.
I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.
- Stephenie Meyer
I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
- Stephenie Meyer
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
- Dominic Monaghan
She's too young. Too innocent.
Too human. For what I'm becoming.
- Karen Marie Moning
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
- Gale Norton
When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.
- Janette Oke
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
- Ehud Olmert
I'm aware that Chloe may have no memory of me at all. She's too young. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her.
- Randy Pausch
When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.
- Allison Pearson
In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.
- Ayn Rand
You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
- Jim Rogers
...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
- Patrick Rothfuss
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
- Sharon Salzberg
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
- Bobby Sands
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;
Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head....
You are too young to fall asleep for ever;
And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.
- Siegfried Sassoon
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
- John Saxon
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
- Gerald Scarfe
There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.
- Jason Segel
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
- Anton Seidl
I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of.
- Rob Sheffield
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.
- Paullina Simons
There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
- Tarsem Singh
My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
- Emmitt Smith
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
- Marla Sokoloff
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
- Catherine Helen Spence
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
- Joanna Trollope
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.
- Danielle Trussoni
She's fifteen!"
Nash shrugged. "That's just a number. It doesn't say anything about her."
"It says something pretty damn funny about your IQ!" I said, and he opened his mouth to retort, but I spoke over him. "Fifteen is too young to drive, too young to get a legal job, too young to sign a lease, and obviously too young to pick a boyfriend with half a brain.
- Rachel Vincent
I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
- Julie Walters
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
- Paul Westerberg
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
- William Wilberforce
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
- Saul Williams
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
- Thomas Willis
If you didn't like it, why didn't you quit?
To do what? Wasn't anything I knew better than farming. I was cursed, that was the problem. Just because I didn't like it didn't mean I wasn't good at it...It's a curse all right, you're just too young to know about that sort of thing. To be good at something you don't care about?
- David Wroblewski