#young men

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#choose #dead #did #here #land

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. ↗

— Henry Adams

#men #passion #regarding #senile #their

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#genius #i #intervened #laughter #like

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. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#escaped #fell #followed #go #guy

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#capitals #die #each #fighting #home

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#between #difference #especially #genius #learn

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bell #conservative #funeral #men #nation

Young men preen. Old men scheme. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#old #old men #scheme #young #young men

To me, what I love about the draft is; first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#cool #cool thing #day #draft #dreams

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family