J R Young Quotes

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Eastlake High makes Buffy's hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk.

But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

When you're 84, a 70-year-old is still pretty young.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.