J R Young Quotes

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer.

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

The young are always in extremes.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.