Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll Reece
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Ralph Fiennes
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Isaac D'Israeli
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
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
Samantha Bond
I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
Nathaniel Rateliff
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
Olivia Wilde
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
Felix de Weldon
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
Jonathan Swift
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
Anne Fontaine
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
Bebe Neuwirth
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
W. Bruce Cameron
I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
R. Madhavan
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
