Quotes with coming-of-age

Quotes 261 till 280 of 833.

  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Gloria Steinem I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Rose Kennedy I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Voltaire I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Joyce Cary I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Bruno Mars I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I missed the NFL by an inch. IRS problems... No money coming in, and not that many options left because I signed that stupid no-compete clause with WWE. I had no one to blame but myself.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Louise Nevelson I never feel age... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
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  • W. M. Thackeray I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Beck I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
    Spin magazine, December 1999
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Tom Stoppard I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Paul Auster I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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