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Youth Quotes
Not a number, but a way of showing up.
This collection touches on youth as both a social phenomenon and a personal outlook - referencing anti-drug campaigns aimed at young people, the pull of crowds during teenage years, and the classic idea that study defines youth itself. Also see Dream.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.
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By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.
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Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
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I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.
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At the Barcelona youth academy, I lived right next to Camp Nou, but I spent my days watching movies.
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In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.
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I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
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