Youth Quotes - Page 20

• Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Towns, Nature Beauty, Maidens

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

  Isaac Newton

  Vegetables, Age, Earth

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• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Imagination, Balance, Trying

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• There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Majority, Culture, Movement

  "A Global Culture to Fight Extremism". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Long, Tobacco Industry, Share

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• It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market...Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Believe, Long, Opinion

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• It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

  George Vaillant

  Liars, Butterfly, Littles

  George E. Vaillant (1977). “Adaptation to Life”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

  Charles A. Reich

  Thoughtful, Land, California

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

  Kurt Hahn

  Men, Compassion, Giving

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• Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a youth to experience events which 'reveal the inner worth of the man; the edge of his temper; the fibre of his stuff; the quality of his resistance; the secret truth of his pretences, not only to himself but others.

  Kurt Hahn

  Character, Men, Secret

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• I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

  Burton Raffel

  Fighting, Dragons, Battle

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
  Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
  Sneak home and pray you'll never know
  The hell where youth and laughter go.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Cheer, Laughter, Home

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Children, Book, Past

  John Kendrick Bangs (2014). “The Autobiography of Methuselah”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Passion, Age, Tasks

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Hollywood, Firsts

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• The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Reading, Age, Library

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• At a youth soccer game you'll probably hear parents and coaches on the sidelines yelling, 'Pass the ball! Pass the ball!' ... When we continually tell our young players to pass the ball, we're not allowing them to develop their full potential, especially those who have the ability to take their opponents on and beat them one-on-one. As a result, we run the risk of diminishing a player's artistry and potential.

  Tony DiCicco

  Soccer, Running, Player

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• Moon is like Soul. Clouds are like all the situations in our life, relationships, youth, etc. Wind is like the Time. Just like the wind moves the clouds, Time moves all the situations in our life. But the soul is always the same and not on the temporary situations. One who focuses on soul is a moon-like person.

  Radhanath Swami

  Moving, Moon, Clouds

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• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  Patrick Roy

  Dream, Adventure, Challenges

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• Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

  Lee Labrada

  Bodybuilding, Fountain, Closest

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• The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

  Felix de Weldon

  Art, Expression, Aspect

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• I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Running, Thinking, Causes

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.

  Michael Meade

  Heart, Boys, Fire

  Michael Meade (1993). “Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men”, Harpercollins

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