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Like any young person, I do what I want. — Anna Kournikova
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like… — Norman MacCaig
There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's… — Helen Mirren
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. — Joni Mitchell
I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on… — Michael Moore
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… — Dennis Prager
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was… — Godfrey Reggio
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. — Henry Rollins
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. — Sargent Shriver
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do… — G. M. Trevelyan
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that… — Desmond Tutu
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly… — George Will
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain… — Maya Angelou
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let… — Jon Krakauer
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were… — Ernest Hemingway
Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating… — Dr. Seuss
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they… — Rita Dove
...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is… — John O'Donohue
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. — Terry Pratchett
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”… — Paul Theroux
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. — Michael Crichton
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately… — Brennan Manning
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far… — Milan Kundera
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young… — Anne Lamott
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior… — Oscar Wilde

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