J R Young Quotes

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.

I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"

A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.

It's nice to see some youth running around and not see achy backs and necks and arms, ... It's nice to see some young guys feeling spry.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.