- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something to be said for one vision and following one vision through. I do think it's something TV will catch up to at some point and realize, 'Wow, we're in the Golden Age of Television right now; we've taken television to another level, but now let's take it to an even higher level where it is one vision throughout a whole season.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
- Chatter
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand to anyone in need, and I hope to raise my daughter to be a very kind and charitable person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose it is easy for an actress to act maternal at any age, since all women have a nurturing instinct after 20, perhaps even earlier.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020