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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
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
- Enrolled
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
- Exposing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For athletes, it is unhealthy to be one-sport focused, especially at a young age. I believe in exposing kids to lots of activities - there are great advantages to being a well-rounded athlete and human, no matter the field of play.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no age limit to wrestling.
- Friendliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that the Liberal party has returned to power after nearly a decade of Stephen Harper's Conservative government and its on-again, off-again friendliness with Beijing, the propaganda line is that Canada-China relations are on the verge of a 'new golden age.' Count on it. There will be a price, and we will pay. We always do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020