Youth Quotes - Page 23

• It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.

  Rosamund Pike

  Dream, New York, Teenage

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• We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Doubt, Shadow, Trying

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• Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Men, Crucible

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Grandparent

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• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Numbers, Rays

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• I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Pride, Boys, Joy

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

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• On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

  Walter Scott

  Soul, Age, Glee

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).”, p.138

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• Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Taken, Cutting, Soul

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Wall, Lying, Real

  "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Flower, Roots

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

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• No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Native Language, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.347

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• Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Inspirational, Teenage, Heart

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• Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Appreciation, Pride, Greatness

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• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  Tom Lehrer

  Heart, Past, College

  "Song: "Bright College Days" ("An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer")". March 20-21, 1959.

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Truth, Real, Illusion

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1614, eBookIt.com

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• Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

  George Pope Morris

  Inspiring, Tree, Protect

  "Woodman, Spare That Tree" l. 1 (1830) See Thomas Campbell 2

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• Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

  Margot Asquith

  Achievement, Asking, Enough

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Girl, Lying, Mean

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.272, GENERAL PRESS

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• By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Names

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• Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Education, Morning

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Grief, Tears, Age

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• The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Never Settle, Flow

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• The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

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• We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, This Generation

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