Age Quotes
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From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.
Elif Batuman
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks
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The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.
Catherine Ingram
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
William Butler Yeats
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My age is getting up there, but that doesn't mean my play has to diminish.
Brian Dawkins
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This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
George Will
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison
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I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
Colin Firth
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What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.
Ken Ham
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It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.
Michaela Watkins
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Hedi was and is still misspelled Heidi and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.
Hedi Slimane
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I'm working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I've looked up to from a very young age.
Baron Vaughn
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I don't have to get myself pumped up or calm myself down. As we get into the later rounds of a tournament and there is more at stake, I have even more adrenaline. If we make the finals, it's just an extra opportunity to win a tournament at my age. That doesn't come along that often.
Karch Kiraly
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Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.
Matt Haig
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Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck
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Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
Charles Frederick Menninger
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It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
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I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
Nigel Rees
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I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.
Brendan Myers
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If youth only knew, if age only could.
Samuel Ullman
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It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.
Torrie Wilson
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The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.
Charles Derber