J R Young Quotes

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do... I guess that's why people connect with the music.

How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?

All the girls look good in college; I mean they're young, they're ready, they're single, they just wanna have fun.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.