J R Young Quotes
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.
There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.
I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
People sometimes forget how important # Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War I love it.
However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.
Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.
How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.
I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.
Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.
I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.
Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.
The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.
I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174
The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.
I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.