Young Men

Famous quotes containing the words young men, young and/or men:

    We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    He sailed east, he sailed west,
    He sailed into proud Turkey,
    —Unknown. Young Beichan (l. 5–6)

    Most people agree that men have trouble showing hurt, jealousy, and fear but even mothers, whose wider emotional range is often taken for granted, also seem more comfortable with anger than these other “unparentlike” feelings. This is probably because several generations of mothers have now been twelve-step-programmed and pop-psychologized enough to believe that expressing hurt, fear, anxiety, or dependence will create pathological guilt in their kids.
    Ron Taffel (20th century)