J R Young Quotes

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

People used to always talk down to me, like, "Oh, you're so young," but now I recognize that my age is an advantage; there's a lot more I can do.

I've always thought young.

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

This one's for Alaska Young!

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.