J R Young Quotes
There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
I feel amazing. In my life right now, I have so much motivation. I am so hungry and so determined... I am young, I am healthy and I feel great - 42 is the new 32.
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.
Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.
I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.
Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.
But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.