Quotes About Youth

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Old enough to kill means old enough to die

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.