“Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.”
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“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.”
“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
“I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.”
“So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.”
“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”
“The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.”
“I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.”
“I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.”
“I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.”
“It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.”
“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.”
“A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.”
“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”
“Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.”
“American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.”
“I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.”
“I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.”
“Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.”
“When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.”
“Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.”
“We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.”