Youth
Rustem Igor Gamow was born to George Gamow, the celebrated cosmologist and physicist, and ballet dancer Rho Gamow. Finishing high school at age 17, he joined the National Ballet Company. He held such jobs as breaking horses, delivering packages by motorcycle, and teaching karate before enrolling in the University of Colorado ("CU") in 1958, where his father taught Physics, Microbiology and Microphysics.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“Our youth we can have but today,
We may always find time to grow old”
—Chinese proverb.
“A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. His fine imagination was often heated and exhausted with his body in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night, and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic bacchanals.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)