Young Man Quotes - Page 21

• He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

  Dennis Price

  Men, Age, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Louis Mazzini". "Kind Hearts and Coronets", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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• The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

  Arnold Ross

  Teaching, Men, Taught

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• If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.

  Takijiro Onishi

  Beautiful, Military, Men

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• The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men and women who are volunteers in the fight for the cause of freedom. Its all about heart.

  Ada F Kay

  Military, Heart, Fighting

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• The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Interesting, Library

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• A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Witty, Jobs

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• Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

  Allan Massie

  War, Men, Soldier

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

  Danny Glover

  Country, Men, Toxic

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.

  B. B. King

  Song, Kids, Boys

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• Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

  Burt Lancaster

  Men, Hollywood, Young

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• I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just thrown into it. I was never a gregarious kind of a young man. I was very frightened. It was difficult to divorce myself from myself.

  Tab Hunter

  Divorce, Men, People

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• There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

  Judy Parfitt

  Home, Men, Two

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• Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted. You can do nothing more important for young people today than to continue, or begin, your support of Scouting. I have never met anyone with devoted Scouting experience who was not a solid citizen, a loyal friend, and a patriot. We need more of them.

  Wallace G. Wilkinson

  Men, People, Support

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• I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

  Candi Staton

  Men, Fool, Sweetheart

  Song: I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart

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• Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Pain, Loneliness, Adversity

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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• But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Growing Up, Men, Thinking

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.381, A&C Black

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• The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

  Stendhal

  Ambition, Men, Years

  Stendhal (2011). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.150, Modern Library

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• Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

  Augustus

  Men, Aging, Young

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• When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Food, Men

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Men, Copying

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• Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is so improbable. I got Floyd Patterson, then, here, at the age of 76, I was fortunate to come in contact with this young man who has, in my opinion, all the requirements to be a champion that I believe he's going to be, maybe the best that ever lived.

  Cus D'Amato

  Believe, Men, Years

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• All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Jail, Giving

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

  George Barr McCutcheon

  Men, Chicago, Doorways

  George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.1476, Wildside Press LLC

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