Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.
James Welch
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
Victor Hugo
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
Roger Angell
Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it
Mark Twain
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers for ourselves
Ruth Goode
Though an old man I am but a young gardener
Thomas Jefferson
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Soren Kierkegaard