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Age Quotes
"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races."
224
"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."
188
"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world."
177
"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
176
"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people."
171
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
170
"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age."
169
"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."
167
"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money."
150
"People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?"
148
"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
141
"I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints."
127
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
102
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
Age,
88
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
86
"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."
83
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
82
"In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age."
81
"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
80
"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
74
"And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation."
70
"It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?"
69
"Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money."
69
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