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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."
109
"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."
74
"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."
72
"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."
60
"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."
56
"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."
48
"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."
46
"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."
43
"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."
41
"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."
38
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
37
"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?"
37
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
36
"I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now."
29
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
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27
"A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy."
26
"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."
25
"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."
25
"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."
24
"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
23
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
23
"I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going."
22
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
21
"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
21
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