1,743 Quotes About Youth

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Once you've seen something that's got nothing to do with you, you can't claim ignorance. But you're still powerless. So at the very least, you want to let yourself feel pity and leave it at that. Those emotions are beautiful and noble, but they're also a cruel and ugly excuse. It's nothing more than an extension of the deceitful youth ideology that I loathe so much.

When one’s young, everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

But they were nonetheless consumed with a fire of loyalty, that paid no heed to years or age.

Music is the language of our generation. I want to dosomething more than just perform. I want to give language to what people like us – people with shared experiences – actually feel. Music does that, y’know?

The path of the warrior, for which many youth hearken for today; means you seek to hold the murderer's blade.

No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.