Quotes with coming-of-age

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  • Eric Gill Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Billie Jean King Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Anthony Hecht Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Don Walk Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is someone who comes from Boston, A Christian is one who comes from Christ.
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  • Bob Dylan Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
    Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brenda Song Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Carlos Ponce Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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  • Bryan Cogman Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Henry Ford Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Norman Podhoretz Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Danger invites rescue.... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Virgil Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.''
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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