J R Young Quotes

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.

The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, 'cause I love her and she's my friend.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson)

I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

I think fashion can have a very negative impact on young people who feel they have to be thin. I am not part of that trend. There is so much pressure on teenage girls.

Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.