“Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”
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“Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.”
“To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”
“In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.”
“In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.”
“Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.”
“Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.”
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.”
“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
“Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.”
“To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.”
“Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.”
“I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.”
“We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.”
“Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.”
“I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.”
“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”
“I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.”
“The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.”
“I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.”
“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.”
“I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.”
“We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.”