- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with your life?'
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: 'Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!'
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
- Nov 07, 2020
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020