Quotes with coming-of-age

Quotes 81 till 100 of 833.

  • Francis Bacon Age will not be defied.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Age, like distance lends a double charm.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Albert Camus Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Marguerite Duras Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All diseases run into one. Old age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aaliyah All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Brian Austin Green All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bel Powley All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Groucho Marx Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • André Malraux Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Dedman American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • James A. Michener An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Raymond Chandler An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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