Quotes About Youth

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Boys are the cash of war.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and Tipper [Gore] leading the charge!

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.