Youth Quotes
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith -
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop -
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano -
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?
Padgett Powell -
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry -
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
Wadah Khanfar -
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
William Butler Yeats -
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman -
I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
F. Sionil Jose -
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch -
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch -
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
Pat Metheny -
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
Gavin Newsom
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There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
D. H. Lawrence -
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll Reece -
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett