Top Young Quotes
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
Frederick Sanger
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Kobe Bryant
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
John Edward Christopher Hill 
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It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer 
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Spike Lee 
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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.
Peter Medawar 
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I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young 
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray 
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Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Solomon Ortiz 
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain 
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Do you young men listen to an old man, to whom old men listened when he was young.
Octavian Caesar Augustus 
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Queen Victoria 
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