Youth Quotes - Page 21

• Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Men, Crucible

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• We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Time, Duration, Waste

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• The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

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• You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

  Gary Lutz

  Tired, Wonder

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• Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Goal, Democracy, Demand

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• In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

  Edward John Trelawny

  Rocks, Climbing, Enemy

  Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.471

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

  Thomas Bastard

  Luck, Mind, Age

  'Chrestoleros' (1598) bk. 7, epigram 9

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• More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from my youth. But now there is a difference; the initiative is entirely with God. It is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God’s hands.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Spiritual, Hands, Differences

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• Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.

  Brad Friedel

  Team, Winning, Player

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• We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

  Louis Riel

  Stories, Inheritance, Cherish

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• The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Girl, Lying, Mean

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.272, GENERAL PRESS

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• How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Uncles, Fall

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• I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

  Natalie Darwitz

  Girl, Hockey, Boys

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• For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

  Bill Gaede

  Love Is, Luxury, Whim

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• War is horrible because it strangles youth.

  Philip Kearny

  War, Horrible

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• Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

  Jose Rizal

  Passion, Childhood, Age

  "'Los Viajes' ('Travels')". Essay by José Rizal, La Solidaridad, May 15, 1889.

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• Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

  Margot Asquith

  Achievement, Asking, Enough

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• Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

  John Goodlad

  Parent, Decay, Patterns

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• We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.

  Colin Goh

  Chasing, Chasing Money

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• I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Phoenix

  'His Phoenix'

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• Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!

  Peter Cushing

  Character, Impact, Yellow

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• Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general public must be reached also Otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. And then the educational institution frequently comes under scrutiny and must pull back.

  John Goodlad

  Children, Educational, Home

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• Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Beauty, Flower, Justice

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• My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Flower, Land, Faults

  Daniel O'Connell (1854). “The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M. P.”, p.81

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