“At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.”
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“Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.”
“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.”
“I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.”
“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.”
“If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.”
“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.”
“By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.”
“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.”
“Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.”
“I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.”
“Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.”
“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.”
“The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.”
“The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.”
“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.”
“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.”
“At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.”
“I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.”
“I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.”
“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.”
“Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.”
“It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.”