J R Young Quotes

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

Young people are just smarter.

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

I don't feel old or young, I just am

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

I am too young and I've loved you too much.

How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

You are as young as your spine is flexible.

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.

Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.