Quotes with coming-of-age

Quotes 721 till 740 of 833.

  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brit Marling We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Hugo Ball We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • Jimmy Carter We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Butch Trucks We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Anthony Holden Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Armistead Maupin Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Assata Shakur We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 167
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Carolyn See What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Lord George Byron What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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