Youth Quotes
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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.'
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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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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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.
