- 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
I played street football from the age of seven and later went into the varzea. Sometimes I'd play as many as three or four matches a day: I couldn't get enough of it. It'd get to the point when my muscles would cramp up.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My quality is my intuition. I can't just ignore that, can I? Then I'd be a player of whom there are a thousand of my age.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite film is 'Tootsie.' I suppose that's because it's very much about my industry and I love all the jokes, albeit a slightly bygone age of the 1980s, a world that I really understand.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's something I'd never wish anybody to have to go through, having a mother pass away at a young age. But it's made me realize that people need help.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020