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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
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off from a very early age listening to music - all the usual cheesy stuff that little kids like.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum didn't have shoes. She was the eldest of 10 kids, and some nights they went without food. That's why, from a young age, I wanted to work hard and change that cycle, to provide not only for my parents but my siblings, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably realized when I was maybe 13 years of age that I could make a living out of playing professional sport and from that time on it was really a goal for me do that as soon as I can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020