Quotes with youth-obsessed

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  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brandi Carlile It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Francis Picabia Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Bernard Goldberg Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • John Updike Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Hannah More Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Caleb Bingham Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
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  • John Milton Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Daniel Defoe Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Bret Harte O'er the trackless past somewhere lie the lost days of our tropic youth.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Olson Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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