Youth
Cheney's parents were Knight Dexter Cheney and Ednah Dow Smith Cheney of South Manchester, Connecticut. His extended family were leading American silk producers. The Cheney Brothers Historic District established landmark status in South Manchester for the Cheney family silk mills, workers' houses, civic buildings and Cheney mansions. He graduated from Yale University in 1904, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Call the bald man, “Boy;” make the sage thy toy;
Greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)