Young Quotes - Page 37

• Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Commitment, Opportunity, Careers

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• There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

  John Knowles

  Numbers, People, Feelings

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• At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

  Thomas Hughes

  Kings, Lying, Hero

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

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• Whom the gods love dies young.

  Menander

  Latin, God Love, Valet

  Dis Exapaton fragment 4

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• Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Children, Mind, Crowds

  Song: The Ghost Song

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• I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

  Jayson Blair

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Children, Mean

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

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• I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

  Andre Dubus

  War, Writing, Men

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

  William Congreve

  Eye, Tasks, World

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 5, sc. 2

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• Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

  Robert Blair

  Ridiculous, Affection, Fantastic

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• First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

  John Carpenter

  Wrestling, Fans, Firsts

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• One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

  John Carpenter

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Hero

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• I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, President, Care

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

  John Knowles

  People, Sick, Generations

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• Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

  Robert Morgan

  Magazines, Littles, Firsts

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• I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

  Ryan Murphy

  Three, Stories, Journalist

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• Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

  Charles Mackay

  Men, Cain, Earth

  Charles Mackay (1872). “A thousand and one Gems of English poetry, selected and arranged by Charles Mackay”, p.469

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• When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

  Ted Turner

  Ocean, Racing, Hours

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.

  Philip Levine

  Writing, Careers, Long

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• Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

  Francis Thompson

  Spring, Home, Feet

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

  Lord Byron

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Inspire, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

  John Adams

  Dance, Reading, Dancing

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.315

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• O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
  But never a song that you have sung
  Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
  When my dear love and I were young.

  William Morris

  Song, Sweet, Dear Love

  "Other Days". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• I see what keeps people young: work!

  Ted Turner

  People, Economy

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