Age Quote by Terri E Apter Download Open image “Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.” — Terri E Apter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Country Old age Strange
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense… — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developments… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then its… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
