J R Young Quotes

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

If you're hiring, if you're the person doing the hiring, forgive a scar or two. Remember that when we were young, we were also idiots. There were just no cameras there to catch it.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.

So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

He who has good health is young.

I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.