Youth Quotes (5700 Quotes)


    Dewey felt that since ideals are not perfectly attainable, they may demoralize students who try to measure up to them. The general tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public spirit, fortitude, etc.

    The proof is always in the pudding. There's no question that as a two-year-old he was a good miler and beyond, and the road we took with him was the road to the Breeders' Cup, and that was one-turn races. There was no reason to try anything else. With a young horse, though, there's always that gray area if they can go that far, mentally or physically.

    I look around, the young kids can make a mistake, but it's generally with effort and that will go a long way to correcting itself, ... We've got to get all of us doing that, because you're going to make mistakes. Take a bad shot, turn the ball over. It's going to happen, but you can't compound it by not doing your job, and understanding the trust, I always talk about trust, if I don't hustle back I affect my whole team, and I have to believe strongly enough not to ever let that happen.


    I haven't seen a young arm like that since Mariano, I would say. Prospect wise, he should get the untouchable tag right now. Don't touch that kid. Leave him alone.




    Young people propose ambitious projects that may not work, so they don't get funded. Everybody else is proposing something where they've already done 90 percent of the work. It's one reason why progress is so incremental.


    We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

    It's an interactive program where we teach students about networking, something they will do over and over again in their jobs. It's not really about what fork to use with what portion of the meal, but about presenting yourself as a young professional rather than as a laid-back college student.


    Give Jamestown a lot of credit. They are well-coached and they shoot the ball very well. That is one thing about NAIA teams they may be a little smaller, but they generally shoot the ball well. Jamestown played hard until the end and they never quit. They have a good, young team.



    People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

    This was a massive star that lived fast and died young. This star was probably quite different from the kind we see today, the type that only could have existed in the early universe.


    Instead we need schools and colleges that are sensitive to the needs of young people and not the priorities of politicians and educationalists.

    I'm not going to let the city get by with anything. They have blown a lot of smoke in the last few years, saying we need to do something for the youth of the area. They will probably laugh at me and tell me to go home.


    No matter the era, it seems that children always want to grow up to be police officers - to wear the uniform, enforce the law, catch the criminal. There's a timeless appeal to this impulse. It reflects a young mind's growing understanding of right and wrong. It reflects a young heart's yearning to keep people safe and families whole.

    I love the competition and to see all the young players come up. Their games are getting better and I've got to step up, myself, which I think is good for me. I've got to find new ways to practice and new ways to get better.

    BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. One night, a doctor said, last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink; Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade. --Bettel K. Jhones.

    I think Dr. King would be shedding a tear this morning, because we have done to ourselves what others could not do to us. Young people are killing each other for no reason.


    This game had a lot of similarities to our whole year. It was a young team coming off a big win over a good team a 3-2 overtime victory Friday at Detroit, then a letdown. In a game like this, your best players have to be your best players, and tonight they weren't.

    I've spoken to Shea a few times this winter. His attitude is tremendously upbeat. He has spent a lot of time talking about the things we need to do as a team to get better. The things that he can do to help not only (John Gibbons), but me as an infield instructor with the young guys. Every conversation that we've had, I've hung up the phone and gone, 'All right, Shea is one-year comfortable in the organization. Now he's ready to take more of a controlled leadership.' He's not worried about being relegated to a secondary role. He's excited about what he can do to make us better.




    They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

    The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.





    This was a very historic season for Andress High School, especially with the youth we're putting on the field. This is about the future now, and the great thing about the future of Andress soccer is, man, you're looking at it.

    We showed some young nerves and shot a little quicker than normal. Phil (Short) then went at the basket which got us into our game and Tom (Harrison) came up big for us in the second quarter.




    He carried himself with a lot of passion, and he had an infectious personality, so he's going to be missed. You hate seeing something like that, obviously, at such a young age and seemingly in the prime of his life .


    First off, we're always young. We're one of the youngest teams in the game every year. Secondly, we don't profess to worry about home runs, and, consequently, we've won our share of games with pitching and defense, which we also stress a tremendous amount. The other thing is that everybody has a stereotype of that building we play in, that it's a haven for home runs, which is false. It isn't a homer dome. Those days are gone since about '87 when we had four or five guys that did hit a bunch of them.

    The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease.

    Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her she knows by a process of the intellect but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

    If the school at the time had done its job correctly and had followed the federal guidelines set up to protect students from campus crime, ... might have been able to enjoy her time as a young coed without the suit looming over her head.


    This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives.



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