J R Young Quotes

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

If I die soon, don't ever say I died too young.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

Young Juiceman, he a flamer!

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

You shall above all things be glad and young.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.