Best youth & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”

Has Beens Dream Would Be Young Realizing Youth

“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.”

Mean Ends Use Dream Would Be Left Nations Vision Youth Higher One Day Mass Mere Chiefs Managers Indian American Dream Rhetoric Promoting Scholarship Higher Education Implicit Elitist

Author:William A. Henry III

“I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.”

Ifs Would Be Young Dies Teacher Wife Middle Youth Died Features Notable Middle Aged Young Writers Die Young Homeowners Young Wife

Book:The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Source: The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.”

Way Would Be Crazy Youth Arrogant Insufferable

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!”

Years Might Would Be Realizing Hours Youth Perfection Presses Add Felicity Wisdom And Experience

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.”

“The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.”

Ifs Would Be Kids Youth Employee Music Business Hiring

Author:Suge Knight

“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”

Ifs Would Be Impossible Youth Civilization Ignorant

Book:Old Goriot: Classic French Literature

Source: Old Goriot: Classic French Literature

“I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.”

Ifs Would Be America Youth Remembered Champion Contribution Disappointed Runners

Author:Wilma Rudolph

“Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty were as engaged as young students are in anti sweatshop campaigns, prison campaigns, etc., it would be a good thing.”

Ifs Needs Important Would Be Young Youth Students Labor Prison Good Things Campaigns Engaged Etc Faculty Why Not Sweatshops Young Students

Author:Michael Yates

“[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk to the youth about not repeating [Pablo Escobar's] story because I am a consequence of what he did and I have not changed my stance on violence since we talked about it.”

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Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”

Doe Would Be Literature Youth Eternal Constant Endure Wounds Golden Grants Translations Heartbeat Bleeding Springtime Rust Eternal Youth

Author:Ludwig Borne

“The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.”

Would Be Eye Artist Universe Stars Land Youth Strange Hundred Fountain Baths Voyages Great Artist Through The Eyes Fountain Of Youth

Book:The captive, The fugitive

Source: The captive, The fugitive

“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”

People Mind Would Be Law Purpose Education Class Learning Wise Youth Generous Expenses Humane Extravagant Public Education Lower Class Liberal Education

Book:Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

“And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.”

Ifs Knows Men Might Would Be Together Remember Faces Moving Given Memories Secret Influence Youth Scene And Love Sight Photograph Features Comrade Gazing

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

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