Age When Quotes
152 quotes by 134 authors
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
— Russell Baker
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of…
— Fidel Castro
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics…
— Aberjhani
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The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
— Henry James Byron
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
— George Burns
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I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed.…
— Yoko Ono
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Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple…
— Rajneesh
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so…
— Margot Fonteyn
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I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked…
— Jessica Pare
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Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved…
— Francoise Sagan
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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that…
— Kathleen Turner
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Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to…
— Tom Waits
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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of…
— Russell Baker
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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider…
— Shimon Peres
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