Top 1200 Coming Of Age Quotes & Sayings

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.'

For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

I was really excited because I had never ever in my life done anything like this [Romeo + Juliette], and at such a young age it was like, "Wow, my dreams are coming true, I'm already in a movie at the age of 12."

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.

There's something unique about coming of age in 2015 with the way the world is.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I don't think bullying is gender or age-related or dependent on what section of society you are coming from.

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

My coming-of-age was really learning to act.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

In today's day and age, where so many kids are taught to specialize so early, I want to show them you don't have to - at a young age, high school age, college age and hopefully a professional age.

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

Coming-of-age stories are always appealing, especially as a young man who's still trying to figure out this complicated world.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

I won't watch that Amir fight from now until I fight Alvarez. I'm not a blown up 147 or a Miguel Cotto. I'm a big 154 lb., and I'm coming of age and coming to win.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

You do connect with people, regardless of their age. And how do you do that? By taking an interest in what they do, where they're coming from.

To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that's just coming out of college and you're out working these guys, age really don't matter. So it's easy for me to see what it is. People say it's all about age, but to me, it's mind over matter.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I think it is important to understand who you are.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a new kind of coming-of-age and love story emerged that required a different kind of telling the story.

The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age.

For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

For any female actor, the age between 35 to 45 is treacherous. Filmmakers tell me, I am at that awkward age. No parts are written for women in this age bracket, while men at that age flourish and have great careers.

This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

For me, at a very young age, I knew I wanted to be in the entertainment industry; I wanted to be an announcer. I was very smitten at an early age with the voice I heard coming from a radio.

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.