Youth Speaker Quotes & Sayings

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment — Chanakya

Music was always the one thing in my life I could count on, the drug that took me away from reality and made me feel whole. — Karina Halle

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing. — Martin Scorsese

I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear - the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past. In essence, nostalgia is associated mostly with the experience of a particular type of migrants, namely, exiles. — Ha Jin

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs. — Rosamund Pike

We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future — Tina Mitchell

There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still look viable. Lammers wasn't one of those. Lammers was one of those crack-in-the-ass guys ten months pregnant with a beer baby. — Lily Gardner

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself. — Jacques Monod

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker. — George Frisbie Hoar

Change is a contact sport. — Romal J. Tune

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way. — Grace Paley

Always keep your best work. — Sergei Bongart

Very efficient, a new voice said approvingly. He decided to take it as a sign of approval, anyway. The speaker was a European-looking youth with a slightly haughty air. — David A. McIntee

Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists. — David Petraeus

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence. — Onyi Anyado

Love was a label I hadn't worn in a long time, but I was starting to think it looked good on me. — Jason Lloyd