Ages Quotes

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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
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
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
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
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
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
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan
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
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
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
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
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
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
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
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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