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“It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.”

People Trying Has Beens Fighting My Own Youth Dignity

Author:Graca Machel

“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”

Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.”

Humans Looks Stills Eye Pain Causes Easy My Own Boys Youth Shoes Ease Divided Troublesome Through The Eyes

Book:What is the What

Source: What is the What

“The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.”

Firsts My Own Youth Summer Expectations First Time Seasons London Theatre Brilliant No Fear Oblivious Youth Theatre

Author:Gina McKee

“I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.”

My Own Youth Type

Author:Gore Vidal

“Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.”

People Social My Own Known Position Youth Type Ought Arrogant Impressed Overwhelmed

Author:Gore Vidal

“Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.”

Made Past Names My Own Creation Youth Greatness Respect Deserve Made It Admiration

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my old craggy features.”

My Own Sun Too Much Youth Months Cells Features Misspent Youth

Author:John McCain

“Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.”

Feels Age Beautiful Certain Culture My Own Youth Right Now Goodness Perfection Criticize Irrelevant Backyards

Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano

“From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.”

Thinking Has Beens Values My Own Moral Youth Israel Defenders Ardent Moral Values

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.”