Nola Ochs Quotes

I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.

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• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• 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

• I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Age

• 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

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • School
  • Age
  • Education

• I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Age
  • Story
  • Homework

• My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Live
  • Remember

• It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Problems
  • Old Age

• At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Age
  • Eyes
  • Own

• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Art
  • Power

• While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• 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

• When I turned 21, I started losing weight - again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Decision

• I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • War

• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Age
  • Normal
  • Hot

• Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Age

• Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • Animal
  • Horse
  • Flying

• Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

  

  Andrew Strauss
  • Career
  • Australia
  • Glenn McGrath

• The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Life
  • May

• I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Past
  • Football
  • Difficult

• Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

  

  Eric Liu
  • America
  • Game

• I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.

  

  Nola Ochs
  • Age
  • Limit
  • Number