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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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Etta James 
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney
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Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Mary Schmich
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I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
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I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.
Mia Hamm
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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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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I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
Brendan Fraser
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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
John Hawkes
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Popular Young Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonFrancois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareMark TwainOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoSamuel ButlerBenjamin DisraeliThomas CarlyleH. L. Mencken
AristotleGilbert K. Chesterton SophoclesOrison Swett MardenDoug CouplandAbraham LincolnFrancis BaconWilliam HazlittGeorge SantayanaHenry Ward BeecherEric HofferDavid Herbert LawrenceJohn F. KennedyWilliam JamesBarack Obama
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