Quotes with coming-of-age

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  • Al Gore George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • John Donne God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bill Hicks Good theory. But guess what, if I don't smoke there's going to be secondary bullets coming your way, 'cause I'm that tense.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Henry van Dyke Gratitude is a twofold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Barton Seaver Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Gene Fowler He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Oscar Wilde He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Plato He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Plato He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Daisy Ashford Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Alan Alda Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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