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Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

William Henry Hudson

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Richard von Weizsäcker

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The best careers advice given to the young... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn

Violence among young people... is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Anthony Burgess

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

Charles Kingsley

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

Mercy Otis Warren

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant of almost every branch of useful knowledge; and at these latter establishments … classical and mathematical pursuits are nearly the sole objects proposed to the student's ambition.

Charles Babbage

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

If you're a painter, you are not alone. There's no way to be alone. You think and you care and you're with all the people who care. You think you care and you're with all the people who care, including the young people who don't know they do yet. Tomlin in his late paintings knew this, Jackson always knew it: that if you meant it enough..

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Catherine Helen Spence

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

That's the duty of the old, said the Librarian, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Of Winston Churchill

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness

I said…how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.