Quotes of: Young-kid Keyword

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

The Luck of the Bodkins

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

Letters to a Young Conservative

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Letters to a Young Contrarian

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

Letters to a Young Poet

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Letters to a Young Poet

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Letters to a Young Poet

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Letters to a Young Poet

For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

The Signature of All Things

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey: Young Reader's Edition

Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de los otros por sí mismo, errando entre las asechanzas del mundo.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/Dubliners

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

P.S. I Still Love You

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

Write like no one is reading 2

Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we’re not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the youthful world the young preside over.

The Wanderess