Ages Quotes
1181 quotes by 916 authors
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.…
— Margaret Atwood
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to…
— Alain de Botton
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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube…
— Jo Brand
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops…
— Jeff Bridges
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine…
— James Buchan
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during…
— Julie Burchill
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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages…
— Nelson Algren
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