Lost generation Quote by Thomas S. Flowers

“We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order is demolished,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die.”

— Laini Taylor

“own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Since history, war has always been the same. Old men talking, young men dying.”

— Kiana Davenport

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true…

— Samuel Beckett

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was dying since the day they were born.”

— Lisa Loeb

“And they well understand the need for some to die in order that a great many more can live. It is the very nature…

— Robin LaFevers

We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They…

— Frederick Lenz

“This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.”

— Philippa Gregory

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the…

— Jon Stewart