- Hard Thing
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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
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
- Haircut
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020