- Day
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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
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was 24 when I went to USC with Pete Carroll. Pete believed in people and never worried about their age. I learned that from him.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play with all the older guys. I never played with, really, my age group when I was younger.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020