Young Man Quotes - Page 2

• For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

  Eamon de Valera

  Football, Men, Games

  "Judging Dev : A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon De Valera" by Royal Irish Academy, 2007.

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• I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

  Charles Lloyd

  Mother, Men, Blessing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

  David R. Brower

  War, Men, Touching

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• when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

  James Vila Blake

  Country, War, Cutting

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

  James E. Faust

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Men, Abuse, Able

  "Frankenstein: Man or monster?" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

  J. C. Ryle

  Humble, Pride, Men

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• It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fate, Opportunity, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.90, VM eBooks

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• We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Islamic, School, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.

  Eddie George

  Athlete, College, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

  Evan Parker

  Men, Today, Young

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• I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.

  Mel Daniels

  Basketball, Hard Times, Winning

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all... and an exciting thing.

  Nina Hagen

  Men, East Germany, Band

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• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Men, Europe

  "Networks Dodge Obama Linking ISIS Terror, Unrest in Ukraine to Events in Ferguson". www.newsbusters.org. September 24, 2014.

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• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jobs, War, Men

  "Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

  James Vance

  Lonely, Men, Shadow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Men, Community

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

  Clive James

  Italian, Men, Wife

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

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• I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.

  Derek Ridgers

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

  Derek Ridgers

  Good Life, Life Lesson, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Speaking specifically about the memoir, I know that's a criticism that people can have about my work. When I look at the young men's lives, if they're reduced to the worst thing they've done, then it's easy for them to become a stereotype. I keep running into that with newspaper articles that are very short.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Running, Men, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Old men make war, young men fight and die

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Men

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• Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Love Is, Men

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• I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

  Matthew Specktor

  Children, Writing, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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