Youth Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• The fountain of youth for me, let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex — yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!

  Cameron Diaz

  Sex, Laughter, Exercise

  "Cameron Diaz: 'Lots of Sex' Is My 'Fountain of Youth'". U.K Vogue Interview, www.usmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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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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• There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Men, Feelings, World

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

  Peter Medawar

  Growing Up, Anger, Hunting

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

  Austin O'Malley

  Knowledge, Games, Damage

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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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• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

  Ayn Rand

  Vision, Ends, Unchanging

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.689, Penguin

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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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• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Fading

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

  Julius Malema

  Boys, Garden, Political

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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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• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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• I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

  Armistead Maupin

  Life, Mistake, People

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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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• Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

  Booth Tarkington

  Christmas, Children, Holiday

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.82, Booklassic

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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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• At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

  Alan Seeger

  Joy, Earth, Golden

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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