Elie Metchnikoff Quotes
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.Elie Metchnikoff
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
Maluma -
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
Larry Hagman -
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 -
But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
Malcolm Boyd -
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra -
I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
Natalie Imbruglia
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse -
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 -
Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
Madhuri Dixit -
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Gail Sheehy -
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Paolo Sorrentino -
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
Hale Irwin
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
Olivier Theyskens -
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
Gary L. Francione -
Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara De Angelis -
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall
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I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'
Angela Kinsey -
Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.
Burning Spear -
I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.
Mark Batterson -
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
John Updike -
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg -
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
Elie Metchnikoff