Age Quotes

• What I have been trying to do in this book is not so much to propose a vision of what, precisely, the next age will be like, but to throw open perspectives, enlarge our sense of possibilities; to begin to ask what it would mean to start thinking on a breadth and with a grandeur appropriate to the times.

  

  David Graeber
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Book

• The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parents

• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.

  

  John Edwards
  • People
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Teacher
  • Humor

• I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Age
  • Culture

• I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Age
  • Swimmer
  • Champ

• I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.

  

  John Madden
  • Age

• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Vision

• Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

  

  Johanna Lindsey
  • Writing
  • Age

• There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Women
  • Age
  • Small

• We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Power
  • Age

• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  

  George Montgomery
  • Life
  • Up
  • Drinking

• At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Fashion
  • Jeans
  • Tommy Hilfiger

• I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

  

  John Gurdon
  • Remember
  • Boat
  • Sailing

• Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Understanding

• I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mother

• I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • People
  • Age

• I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

  

  James McGreevey
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Age

• When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Up
  • Age

• 'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Age
  • Sad

• The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Together
  • History
  • Science

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