#young man

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#custom #dancing #learn #made #man

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. ↗

— John Updike

#goes #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man #off

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29. ↗

— Robert Conrad

#how #i #know #man #martin

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#far #i #man #possessing #range

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#dangerous place #man #most #oxford #place

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#employment #following #hero #man #may

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. ↗

— Brigham Young

#any #community #man #menace #twenty

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha