Quotes with old-age

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  • Seneca Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Cameron Diaz Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Auberon Waugh Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
    Auberon Waugh
     
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • A. N. Wilson Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Wordsworth But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Boris Johnson But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
    Source: Quotes of the Day, The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Allen Tate But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Source: Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bret Harte But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Aeschylus But time growing old teaches all things.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bill Wyman But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Bono But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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