I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. ~By Felix Bloch ~
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ~By Honore De Balzac ~
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. ~By Angela Davis ~
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. ~By Jean Paul ~
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ~By John McCarthy ~
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. ~By Alexander Pope ~
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. ~By Nolan Ryan ~
The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club. ~By Richard Gough ~
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. ~By Sara Teasdale ~
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ~By Margaret Mead ~
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy. ~By Vivienne Westwood ~
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. ~By Mason Cooley ~
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off. ~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true! ~By Edwin Markham ~
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. ~By Robert Wyatt ~
There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do. ~By Kim Gordon ~
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ~By Virginia Woolf ~
If youth knew; if age could. ~By Sigmund Freud ~
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. ~By Jonathan Swift ~
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking. ~By Portia de Rossi ~
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ~By Maurice Chevalier ~
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. ~By Robert Wyatt ~
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. ~By Bud Selig ~
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater. ~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ~By Thomas Mann ~
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. ~By William Ellery Channing ~
Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent. ~By Larry Merchant ~
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. ~By Robert Wyatt ~
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game. ~By Troy Vincent ~
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. ~By Jon English ~
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song. ~By Thurston Moore ~
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. ~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. ~By William Banting ~
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. ~By Henry Ellis ~
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. ~By Peter Medawar ~
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ~By Charlotte Bronte ~
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. ~By Mary Wilson Little ~
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. ~By Burt Rutan ~
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse. ~By Jon Corzine ~
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~By Herbert Hoover ~
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. ~By Felix Bloch ~
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions. ~By Lara St. John ~
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. ~By William Godwin ~
This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth. ~By Kristin Davis ~
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". ~By Nelson Rockefeller ~
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be. ~By Delta Burke ~
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. ~By V. S. Pritchett ~
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. ~By Joseph Addison ~
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. ~By Henry James ~
Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair. ~By Abu Bakr ~
I go to school the youth to learn the future. ~By Robert Frost ~
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe. ~By Cat Stevens ~
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses. ~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth. ~By Tim LaHaye ~
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. ~By Frank Abagnale ~
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. ~By Eric Hoffer ~
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. ~By John M. McHugh ~
Youth should be a savings bank. ~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ~By Jessamyn West ~
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. ~By James Russell Lowell ~
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~By Sophia Loren ~
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. ~By Vita Sackville-West ~
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ~By Maimonides ~
We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform. ~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. ~By Mary Roberts Rinehart ~
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. ~By Roma Downey ~
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. ~By Pat Metheny ~
One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth. ~By Picabo Street ~
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ~By Beverly Sills ~
Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. ~By Ice Cube ~
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! ~By Gil Gerard ~
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. ~By Stendhal ~
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. ~By Jean Genet ~
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. ~By Sargent Shriver ~
For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ~By Eric Anderson ~
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart. ~By Raisa Gorbachyova ~
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? ~By Evelyn Waugh ~
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ~By William Shakespeare ~
In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~By Al Bernstein ~
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. ~By Ruben Blades ~
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. ~By Shimon Peres ~
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ~By Pope Paul VI ~
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. ~By Edvard Munch ~
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art. ~By Felix de Weldon ~
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. ~By Shia LaBeouf ~
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
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