927 private quotes tagged age

“I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.” — Edward Norton

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“When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” — Robertson Davies

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“In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.” — Gabrielle Union

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“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.” — Kyle Chandler

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“There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.” — Jane Fonda

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“I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.” — Roger Moore

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“I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.” — Eddie Vedder

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“Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.” — Irvin S. Cobb

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“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.” — Ezra Pound

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“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.” — Kathleen Turner

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“Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.” — Rupert Everett

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“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.” — Roberto Cavalli

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“I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?” — George Michael

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“We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.” — Theodore Bikel

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“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.” — A. N. Wilson

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“Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.” — Theodore Bikel

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“I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.” — Camille Pissarro

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“I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.” — Garrett Hedlund

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“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.” — Frederick Jackson Turner

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“I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.” — Blanche Lincoln

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“By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.” — John le Carre

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“When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.” — John le Carre

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“The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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