- Funny
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has to change for countries to remain competitive and for our businesses and workers to survive in the digital age.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.
- Heated
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- Nov 07, 2020