- Dreading
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever your age, think about the young generation. And try to give them back the future being taken from them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
- Cakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020