Young Quotes - Page 35

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Son, Wife

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• Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

  John Howard

  People, Community, Risk

  Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.

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• The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to.

  John Lindsay

  Running, May, Faster

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• Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Giants, Aviation

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• The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

  Henry Miller

  Wise, Keys, Order

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.

  John Fahey

  Meaningful, Real, Islands

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• When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

  John Wesley

  Mistake, Past, Years

  John Wesley (1841). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.”, p.376

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• Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

  Voltaire

  Hands, Firsts, Revolution

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• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

  David Mitchell

  Numbers, People, Age

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• I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

  Ben Barnes

  Years, Play, Age

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• When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

  Ben Barnes

  School, Years, Age

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• A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Elders, Young Man

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Father, Shy, Littles

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• Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

  John Hughes

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

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• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  Dan O'Brien

  Fun, Athlete, Winning

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• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  Dan O'Brien

  Children, Pain, Way

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• I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

  Jon Landau

  Eye, Past, Night

  "The Real Paper" Newspaper, 1974.

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• But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

  Philip Levine

  Poet, Written

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• It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

  Henry Miller

  Birthday, Feelings, Forty

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• The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

  John Barrymore

  Life, Dying, Use

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

  Tim Johnson

  Children, Poor Quality, Support

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• Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

  Andrew Lang

  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

  Steve Hamilton

  Heart, Men, Challenges

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• When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distance, War, Flower

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• You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

  John Oates

  Clothes, May, Way

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