- 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
- Headphones
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.
- Panic
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- Nov 07, 2020