Youngsters Quotes

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, School, Learning

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Two, Age

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• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Motivational, Athlete, Responsibility

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• You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.112, Universities Press

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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Funny, Family, Queens

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• And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Math, Foundation

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• We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress

  Rahul Gandhi

  Running, Country, Party

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• The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

  Wes Moore

  Opportunity, Men, Cities

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• Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Issues, Want, Entertainment

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• Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Parent, Development, Helping

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Numbers, Goal, Priorities

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  Major Taylor

  Giving, Champion, Racing

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

  Major Owens

  Technology, Community, Needs

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• I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

  Maximilian Schell

  Fun, Halloween, Black

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• I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

  DeForest Kelley

  Hunting, Fishing, Tadpoles

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• It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Sports, Cheating, Work

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• Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teaching, Joy, Use

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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• I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Teenager, School, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Crowds, Affair

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

  Johnny Evers

  Character, Friendly, Helping

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• Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

  Edward de Bono

  Teaching, Thinking, Employment

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• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Attention, Helping, Miserable

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• If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• Good to see a youngster who appreciates the importance of being......Well Armed. But...That's not how we play TAG......Where I come from. ~Train Heartnet

  Kentaro Yabuki

  Play, Appreciate, Tag

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