Quotes with coming-of-age

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  • Tom Lehrer It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Arthur Miller It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not well to make great changes in old age.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is personalities, not principles, that move the age
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) H. 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
    Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Gore Vidal It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • André Gide It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bel Powley It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Lord George Byron It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - and in my esteem age is not estimable.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bram Cohen It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Angela Carter It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bob Newhart It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Virginia Woolf It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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