Quotes with middle-age

Quotes 761 till 780 of 825.

  • Camille Paglia Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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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  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Oprah Winfrey With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • William Feather Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Gloria Steinem Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
    Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (2012) 326
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Earl Nightingale You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ''acres of diamonds.''
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bonnie Wright You can be on holiday abroad, in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, and someone will recognise you, and you just think, How far has this spread?
    How Bonnie charmed Harry, Charlotte Methven, Daily Mail, 12th December 2009
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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  • Norman Douglas You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Mohsin Hamid You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Belinda Carlisle You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
    Belinda Carlisle
    American singer, musician, and author (1958 - )
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