Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

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

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.