Age Quote by Simon Raven

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so…

— Jagmeet Singh

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

— Sadie Frost

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

— Brian Aldiss

My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it,…

— George Muller

Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been…

— Michelangelo

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“By the time I left college, I realized I'd never be happy unless I undid a lifetime of conformist conditioning. Thus, I reversed my…

— Daniel Price

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall…

— Maya Angelou

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need…

— George Bernard Shaw

My first 26 years was a time of hard work. I was an obedient child to my parents. Whatever I earned, I gave to…

— Mumtaz

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

— Diana Nyad

Appreciation of my own mortality stifled every ambition I ever had.

— Steve Fowler