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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.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.
It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before.
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.
I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.
I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor
You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.
I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.
I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
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.
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.
We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.
The age I'm at now... you go from being a young girl to suddenly, you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot!
I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.
I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.
I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.