Quotes with coming-of-age

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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Gerald Early Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bill Goldberg Everything emanates from the basics, from your base. If you don't have a strong base, I'm sorry, but you are always going to be coming back to it, trying to reattain.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich 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.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Bob Brown Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Blaise Pascal For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carol Bellamy For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Demi Moore For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
    Demi Moore
    American actress (1962 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • David Lloyd George Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Sophie Tucker From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
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  • Calvin Harris From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • John Henry Newman From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Britt Ekland Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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