David Shields Quotes

The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Military

• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Age
  • Busy

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Home
  • Age
  • Travel

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Youth

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Age
  • Greatest

• I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Focus
  • Bridge

• Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

  

  David Shields
  • Literature

• While some politicians argue over whether to believe scientists' almost overwhelming consensus on climate change, the business sector is a believer and is wisely planning ahead.

  

  John Delaney
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Planning

• The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

  

  David Shields
  • Age