- 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
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a young age I was really into pop music because I had these two older sisters who were into it, and I wanted to be like them. They liked Wham! and so I was really into them too.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020