Young Quotes - Page 14

• I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.

  Anne Bronte

  Believe, Careful, Young Ladies

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.225, Diversion Books

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• I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Children, Mind, Normal

  'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910

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• ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Valentine, Race

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• I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Skills, Tears, World

  "Hymn" by Czeslaw Milosz, 1935.

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• While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

  Sallust

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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• My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Photography, Art, Drama

  "Global Citizen". Scouts Interview, July/August 2010.

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• I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

  Kingsley Amis

  Men, Hammers, Thumbs

  1979 Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle, Jun.

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• When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

  Gladys Bronwyn Stern

  Beautiful, What Matters, Lessons

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• The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Exercise, Cheater, Play

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• But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

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• Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Mistake, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.204, Penguin

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• The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Art, Ambition, Men

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• The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

  James Farley

  School, Men, Eight

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• We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

  James Farley

  Husband, Boys, Competition

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• When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

  Bob Dole

  Trust, Confused, Government

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• A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

  Barbara Mertz

  Common, Youth, Martyrdom

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• If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Delicacy, Shame

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.294, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a young English nobleman, and an Iroquois in the forest, or an Arab in the desert are compared, it will be found that their real sources of happiness are nearly the same.

  Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

  Real, Civilization, Differences

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• Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.

  Norman Maclean

  Death, Reach Out, Stills

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Life, Pain, Moving

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• Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.

  Terri E Apter

  Giving, Parent, Forever

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• when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

  Vicki Baum

  Running, Children, Parent

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Skills, Athletic

  Nancy Etcoff (2011). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, p.77, Anchor

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• Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

  Laura Riding

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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