Young Quotations | Page 5

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

You don't lose those kinds of individuals and have your team go unaffected. But you build a program that allows younger runners to develop and take the place of those who graduate when they're called upon to contribute, and we have that here.

We have a really strict pitch count for these younger kids.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

I'm sorry. I'm very young.

My dad died when I was 13. I was one of six boys. My oldest brother was 15, the youngest was 18 months.

My dad always talked to me and asked me how I felt about him taking in kids off the street. I was the youngest in our family and the only one left at home at that time, so I enjoyed the company. Plus, Glen is such a great friend. We always enjoyed being together.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.