- Death
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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
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I don't feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal kids my age had. I had something that was specific to Bosnia in '90s, something I call a period of survival.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree cars become classic with age and you never know which ones are going to be in vogue.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020