Ageing Quote by Robert Conquest

“There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a…

— Anne Enright

“Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, pointy pink glasses, and no courage for flirting. It's doesn't…

— Margarita Engle

“By the age of seven, as an eldest boy, I was expected to help the family with the money." !!!!!!!!!!”

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

“My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief…

— Janice Steinberg

“I wasn’t sure what was required for home schooling, but I’d take ten hours a day, seven days a week, with no bathroom or…

— Nicole Williams

“I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he…

— Jodi Picoult

“had five kids under the age of ten,”

— Jill Shalvis

“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’ I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If…

— Leanne Hall

“first-grader. The same sickening feeling churned her stomach that she remembered when she first entered a room full of strangers as a five-year-old. She…

— Marie Astor

“Your only a teenager for seven years.”

— Raymond Bullock

“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“What makes people between the ages of eleven and fifteen such mean jerks? I’d rather be ninety-five than thirteen again.”

— Tim Sandlin