Young Quotes - Page 29

• I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.

  Min

  Dancing, Genius, Littles

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• Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord’s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God’s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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• We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.

  Barack Obama

  Life, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2015.

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• ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Night, Mind

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed
  right to grow old.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Blessed, Dying

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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• She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

  Anthony J. Carson

  Beach, Blonde, Wave

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• The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

  Efim Bogoljubov

  Book, People, Chess

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• Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Order, Giving

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• Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
  Communicated monthly, sit and stare
  At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
  Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

  John Betjeman

  Running, Men, Air

  'Death of King George V' (1937)

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• I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.

  Ryan Holmes

  Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Names

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• What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

  Stephen Colbert

  Horse, Dad, Battle

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• The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Education, Self, People

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• ... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Education, Art, Crowds

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• I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

  Jonas Salk

  People, Generations, Scene

  "The Open Mind interview". Interview with Richard D. Heffner, May 11, 1985.

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• If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I have heard what a big problem mental health is in New Hampshire? Would I have heard people say they're really worried about the impact on young people because New Hampshire has the highest tuition and debt problems in the country? i'm not sure I would have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Book, Health

  "Welcome to Hillary Clinton's classroom" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2015.

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• From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

  Pope Francis

  Confidence, Country, Children

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• The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

  Perry Brass

  Men, Invisible, Most Amazing

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

  Lewis Black

  Life, Real, Two

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• When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

  Jermain Defoe

  Football, Kids, People

  "'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

  Bear Bryant

  Hate, Men, Kind

  "Football's Supercoach" by B.J. Phillips, content.time.com. Septemebr 29, 1980.

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• When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
  girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

  Jennie Finch

  Beautiful, Girl, Softball

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• No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

  Jim Elliot

  Sleep, People, Example

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, Chapter 4, 1989.

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• It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, School, Men

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• With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

  Bob Shacochis

  Blood, Sweat, Iron

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• As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

  Om Puri

  Men, Feelings, Quiet

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