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Age Quotes


"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."


"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."


"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."


"About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible."


"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."


"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."


"It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes."


"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."


"The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland."


"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."



"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."


"Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth."


"Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show."


"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."



"I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing."
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"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."


"After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths."


"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."


"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age."


"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."


"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases."


"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."


"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."


"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."



"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."



"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
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