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Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex… — Margaret Mahy
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me. — Bo Jackson
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. — Lord Byron
The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what… — Oprah Winfrey
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science,… — Blaise Pascal
The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness — Lionel Barrymore
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason — Gelett Burgess
If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known… — Billy Joel
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. — Roger Rosenblatt
Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break. — Mark Russell
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the… — Jonathan Schell
A language Older Than Words — Derrick Jensen
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the… — William Robertson Smith
You don't get older, you get better. — Shirley Bassey
The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff. — Kathy Valentine
She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in… — Kate Jackson
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running… — Howie Mandel
Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a… — Mark Lepper
It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many… — John F. Kennedy
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. — Ted Koppel
As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's… — Malcolm Forbes
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half… — B. C. Forbes
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older… — Caleb Carr
There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood
You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright. — Maria V. Snyder

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