Youth Quotes - Page 13

• Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mistake, Heart, Opportunity

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• Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Football, Country

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

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• If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Freedom, Blood, Water

  "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

  David Lange

  Two, Missing, Bahamas

  "Sunday Herald" Newspaper, August 7, 2005.

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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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• My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Escaping, Giving

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

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• The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

  Salvador Dali

  Youth Of Today, Today, Problem

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• Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Age, Entertainment

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

  James M. Barrie

  Pain, Memories, Humility

  "The Little Minister". Book by James M. Barrie, 1891.

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• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Joy, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

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• Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

  Brandon Boyd

  Girl, Thinking, America

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• When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Cutting, News, Young

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1987). “World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Children, Fun, Emotional

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• It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Educational, Successful, Opportunity

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• I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Character, Men, Land

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1852). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851”, p.132

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