Quotes about youth

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (p. 263)

You may have all the money in the world, Mr. Hobbs, I thought, you might own the whole universe and its particles thereof, you might gain interest on the stars and reap dividends from the moon, but I'm young and you're old and I have something you don't - a future.

We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Young Isaac had dreamed of fame.

Young Isaac was an idiot.

They were old enough to know such things were forbidden, yet young enough still to find the forbidden irresistible rather than terrifying.

"But it is the old story of new generations refusing to be bound by the promises of their forefathers."

"I suppose one could scarcely have had innocence and experience. Being young is very exhausting and unsatisfactory, really—although it looks so nice."

There was no readiness for soldiering in this truck, no stern and cocky welcoming of challenges. They sounded - oh, Mother of God - they sounded like children.

It is not clear to me whether the insouciance of youth will be the doom of humanity or its salvation. I prefer to think the latter, but I have my doubts.

One thing you have to teach the young is that it’s wrong to run away from problems.

That’s the trouble with the younger generation. They don’t understand why a thing can’t be done, so they go ahead and do it.