J R Young Quotes

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

Too fast to live, too young to die.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Young people want you to be real with them.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two million who are silenced in the classroom, losing out on their education.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

When I was young, I didn't really think about anything other than sports.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people