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Young Quotes by Doris Lessing
- She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young…
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to…
- Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the…
- Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by…
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood