“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
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“And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.”
“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.”
“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.”
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
“In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.”
“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.”
“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”
“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.”
“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.”
“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”
“I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.”
“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.”