J R Young Quotes

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

When I was young I used to listen to everything.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

You are as old as God and as young as the morning.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

I rarely meet a young man who doesn't already think he is.

For all the women - especially the young women, who put your faith in me - I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

I want young people to be involved, and I especially want young people to vote.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

I do remember being young.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

I've been really impressed at some of the investments that I've seen in community college and technical schools that are training young people for these jobs in 3D printing and the like.

Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.