Nicholas Sparks Quotes

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Nicholas Sparks

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• Age
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• Adults

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Listen

• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Understand
  • Guys
  • Silhouette

• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Age

• But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Think

• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hate
  • Understand
  • Laugh

• Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Running

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Home
  • Age
  • Doing

• Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Love
  • Age
  • Find

• As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Work
  • Understand
  • Hard Work

• 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.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Youth

• Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • People
  • Sick
  • Stage

• It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Long
  • Distance

• Life is supposed to get tough.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Life

• As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Might
  • Wells
  • Pops

• You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Understand