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Age Quotes


"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."


"It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws."


"Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could."


"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."


"I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me."


"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning."


"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20."


"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."


"To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone."


"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."


"Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."


"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."
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"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."


"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."


"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."


"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves."


"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."



"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."


"When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age."


"Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age."


"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."


"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."


"Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly."


"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."


"You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age."


"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."


"From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process."


"The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age."
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