Quotes with mature-age

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  • Victor Hugo When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Billy Graham When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Caitlin Moran When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Ben Barnes When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Pope When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. B. King When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Louise Erdrich When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • John Mortimer When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Novalis Where children are, there is the golden age.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wherever there is power there is age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carson Kressley Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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