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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.
- Nov 07, 2020
The speed and timing go with age.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020