- Early
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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
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the chance to play with Alan Shearer to join the list of class players I'd played with at a young age at Leeds - the Vidukas, Smiths, Kewells, and Woodgates.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek - it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to play first-team men's football from a young age.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started lower down the leagues with Coventry, so I'd had that taste of first-team action at a young age. I'd already played 40 or 50 games before moving on, and when I got to Norwich, I had to bide my time at the start.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dele Alli is probably the perfect example. He played loads of games for MK Dons at a young age. He got a move and kicked on from there because he had that experience behind him.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Chicagoland, they had afternoon 'Jeopardy!' and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would watch and it's what got me interested in Jeopardy! and sports statistics at an early age.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020