927 private quotes tagged age

“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.” — Nadia Comaneci

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“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.” — Bennett Cerf

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“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.” — Robertson Davies

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“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.” — Washington Irving

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“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.” — Cate Blanchett

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“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.” — Ogden Nash

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“Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.” — Michael Caine

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“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'” — Sydney J. Harris

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“We are always the same age inside.” — Gertrude Stein

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“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” — Doug Larson

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“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.” — Denis Diderot

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“Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.” — Mario Andretti

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“I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.” — Charles Kuralt

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“We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.” — David Hockney

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“Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.” — Keanu Reeves

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“Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.” — Phoebe Cary

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“I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“People dance at any age.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?” — Casey Stengel

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“You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.” — Tori Amos

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“I shall not grow conservative with age.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.” — Julie Walters

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