927 private quotes tagged age

“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” — Tom Hanks

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“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” — Phyllis Diller

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“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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“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.” — Thomas Browne

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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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“At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.” — Rod Stewart

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“The surest sign of age is loneliness.” — Annie Dillard

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“I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.” — George Clooney

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“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” — Willa Cather

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“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.” — Adam Carolla

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“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.” — John Polkinghorne

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“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.” — Brian Clough

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“I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.” — William J. Clinton

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“My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.” — Rachel Roy

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“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” — Warren Beatty

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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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“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.” — Flannery O'Connor

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“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.” — Charlotte Bronte

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“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.” — Dee Dee Myers

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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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“When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.” — Jason Kidd

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“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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