Youth Quotes - Page 12

• The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Thinking, Interesting

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• If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

  Nikola Tesla

  Humanity, Secret, Genius

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

  Rakim

  Honesty, Speak, Teach

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• You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ideas, Giving, Spots

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• I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Childhood, Ballet, Age

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Ballet, Maids

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Oil, Childhood, Age

  "Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

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• To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth.

  Hallie Erminie Rives

  Memories, Son, Careers

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Age, Looks

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• This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Loyalty, Gratitude

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• Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

  William Banting

  Believe, Men, Enemy

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Horse, Illustration, Ordinary

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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• Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, School, Glamorous

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• The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

  India.Arie

  Music, Song, Real

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• No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Tree, Parent

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• A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

  Stendhal

  Men, Years, Forty

  "The Charterhouse of Parma". Book by Stendhal, Ch. 23, 1839.

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• There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Integrity, Character, Competence

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1996). “The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

  David Dinkins

  Children, Program, Involvement

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• I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Reading, World

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• See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Hands, Age, Faces

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

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• I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has been refreshed by the youth and enthusiasm that has come into the team. I think that has been misunderstood and misrepresented in certain quarters to the detriment of Indian cricket.

  Greg Chappell

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!—
  But time goes on, and will, unheeding,
  Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn,
  And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

  Conrad Aiken

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Greg Walden

  Government, Hands, Organization

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• In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

  Tom Lehrer

  Girl, Fronts

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Jan. 1982

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