Youth Quotes
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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.
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The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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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.
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I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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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.
