Quotes with five-year-old

Quotes 641 till 660 of 1466.

  • 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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Brigitte Bardot It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Karl Kraus It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Forsyth It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bob Marley It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Warren Buffett It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • H. Ross Perot It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Brooks Atkinson It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
    Source: Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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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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  • Horace Walpole It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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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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  • George Bernard Shaw It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryan White It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Betty Ford It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
    Source: The times of my life
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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