We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Take young researchers put them together in virtual seclusion give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning not as something to celebrate.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 he was an angry relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively that is but as a means of personal expression.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try at age 65!
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
I don't believe in happy endings but I do believe in happy travels because ultimately you die at a very young age or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing life.
Married or unmarried young or old poet or worker you are still a dreamer and will one time know and feel that your life is but a dream.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
When you are young and healthy it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age who are still in the process of forming themselves as women and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes packaged cake mixes frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
I've dated men my age younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport discipline and physical fitness.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else or always wanting to be the first one in line.
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with but by the time you've got all this great wisdom you don't get to be young anymore.
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.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
My parents were really really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12 I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery who gets older and older still playing opposite young ladies but it doesn't work the other way around.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
The age in which we live this non-stop distraction is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline because you need to be alone to find out anything.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook and she still cooks and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
I never had little brothers so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
I grew up in the world of bad television on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young compassionate with the aged sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young the habituation of the middle-aged and the mutual dependence of the old.
And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
My message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Well I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight' they are pretty adult themes aside from maybe the first one but even that. They're very adult themes actually particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself as an audience.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Perhaps people and kids especially are spoiled today because all the kids today have cars it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
We need somebody who's got the heart the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Music has always been my protection against the world from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love - and to put its trust in life.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor but for an actor of a young age it's going to be even tougher.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective nurturing bonding parents.
It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together as a team.