- I Am
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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
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm blessed with being quite secure - not necessarily about my looks, but if someone says, 'I don't like what you're wearing,' I am never going to go and cry about it. I think that does come with age, though.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020