Quotes with coming-of-age

Quotes 241 till 260 of 833.

  • Adam Brody I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Camille Desmoulins I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Rita Mae Brown I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Miller I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Jamie Oliver I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.
    Jamie Oliver
    British celebrity chef and restaurateur (1975 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • T. S. Eliot I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Tupac Shakur I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Oprah Winfrey I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Burt Young I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I feel coming on a strange disease - humility
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bryan Adams I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Noel Coward I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Alice Walker I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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