Age Quote by Binyavanga Wainaina Download Open image “People reach an age... where somebody elses platform is no longer yours.” — Binyavanga Wainaina ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age People Platforms
The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the… — Moby Copy Share Image
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people. — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and… — Peter Horton Copy Share Image
“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.” — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Science is smaller than music, than the patterns of the body; the large confident world of sound and body gathers. If my mind and… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
