Young Man Quotes - Page 30

• The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

  John George Nicolay

  Men, Illinois, Careers

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

  Ann Wilson

  Love, War, Men

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• It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

  Ismail Merchant

  Relationship, Writing, Men

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• In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Sweet, Children

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Dream, Grateful, Men

  "World leaders praise voter courage", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2005.

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• Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Boys, Men, May

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.76, Routledge

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• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Character, Son

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• A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Teacher, Men

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• [As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

  James D. Watson

  Morning, Father, Sunday

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• Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."

  Vicki Donlan

  Baby, Smart, Work

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

  Owen D. Young

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

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• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  Art Garfunkel

  Greatness, Men, Vision

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• I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Men, Skills

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.150, Vintage

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• It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Thinking, Perfect

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• The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2821, Delphi Classics

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• Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Should, Young

  "Twice Told Tales". Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837, 1851.

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• It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

  Epicurus

  Men, Chance, Belief

  "Dancing into old age" by Daniel Klein, www.cnn.com. March 16, 2013.

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• We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Mind, Video

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Men, President

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• Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

  Andre Malraux

  Heart, Artist, Men

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• As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

  Otto Dix

  Dream, Men, Years

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• At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Beautiful, Sleep, Men

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• Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Men, Lazy People

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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Locks

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

  Mike Singletary

  Opportunity, Men, Organization

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