#young person

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#continue #day #dimension #end #end of the day

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#black #certain #certain feeling #cotton #developed

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dies #disposed #either #human #human nature

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#because #being #challenging #find #identity

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#enthusiastic #goes #meet #might #out

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#been #cannot #centuries #done #enough

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#any #could #days #decent #look

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#help #her #him #however #i

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#came #every #here #i #i came

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#any #balance #courage #durable #embraces