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Youth Quotes - Page 2

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate's speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute, September 29, 1854.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

"Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

George Clinton (2014). “Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

We must be young to do great things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

Song: I Know I Can *Clean Version*, Album: God's Son, 2002