Younger Quotes
1533 Younger quotes by 1286 unique authors
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father…
— Taslima Nasrin
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All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations…
— Fred Brooks
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When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or…
— Patty Duke
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With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to…
— Maria Montessori
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We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and…
— Taylor Caldwell
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Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
— Jonathan Swift
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Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
— Laurence J. Peter
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious…
— Nikki Giovanni
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There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work.…
— William McFee
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in…
— Gunter Grass
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I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
— Paula Cole
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I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.
— Alicia Silverstone
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
— Jim Harrison
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
— Freeman Dyson
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Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left…
— Tiger Woods
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The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
— Pablo Casals
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What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least…
— Henry Mintzberg
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I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own…
— Greg Egan
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old.…
— Jack Nicholson
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The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones…
— Glenn Frey
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Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things…
— Miriam Makeba
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When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught…
— Richard Madden
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I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.
— Jane Leeves
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