- Always
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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
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.
- Flight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.
- Displacement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.
- Book Tour
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is the verdict of life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020