“Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
"Holla If Ya Hear Me" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/hollaifyahearme.html (1993). <br class="br">1990s
“Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
"Holla If Ya Hear Me" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/hollaifyahearme.html (1993). <br class="br">1990s
“Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.”
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Prose and Poetry
“Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
The Borough (1810), Letter iii, "The Vicar", line 138.
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Jane Cobbald: Viktor Schauberger - A Life of Learning from Nature (2006)
Joseph Stella (1877–1946) American artist
Joseph Stella (1911); Quoted in: Ruth L. Bohan. Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920, (2006). p. 193
“You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Ain't It the Truth" originally written for Cabin in the Sky (1943), but pulled from the show, and later included in Jamaica (1957) - Lena Horne version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSyXuvNpeM <br class="br">Context: Life is short, short, brother!<br>Ain't it the truth?<br>And there is no other<br>Ain't it the truth?<br>You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!<br>Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)