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Age Quotes


"I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it."


"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."


"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."


"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."



"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."


"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."



"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."


"At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin."


"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."


"One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh."


"I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit."


"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."


"Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age."


"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."


"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."


"I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?"


"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."


"The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds."


"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"


"But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter."


"This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem."


"After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach."


"Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15."
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