Youth Quotes - Page 17

• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Fading

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

  Brandon Boyd

  Girl, Thinking, America

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• When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Cutting, News, Young

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1987). “World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

  Julius Malema

  Boys, Garden, Political

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• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Children, Fun, Emotional

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• It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Educational, Successful, Opportunity

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• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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• If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Dream, Needs, World

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• I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

  Armistead Maupin

  Life, Mistake, People

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• I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Opportunity, Thinking

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• No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

  Ellen Terry

  Loss, Skills, Actresses

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

  Booth Tarkington

  Christmas, Children, Holiday

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.82, Booklassic

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• The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Character, Men, Land

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1852). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851”, p.132

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• I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Sensual, Known

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• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

  Honore de Balzac

  Failure, Remembrance, Age

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• I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Clever, Stupid

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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• They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

  Freddie Mercury

  Russia

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• At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

  Alan Seeger

  Joy, Earth, Golden

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

  Jacques Rogge

  Winter, Years, Games

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• Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Education, Children, Responsibility

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “Evaluation to Improve Learning”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Ignorant, Age, Empty

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

  Max Scheler

  Self, Age, Movement

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• Youth should learn to think and act as a mass.  It is criminal to think as individuals!

  Che Guevara

  Thinking, Criminals, Individual

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