Top 1200 Coming Of Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel that leaves us with some revealing snapshots of America, both at war and in denial, and some telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood.

Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

If you love the things you do, you don’t age, you always remain young. Age is for the calendar.

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.

Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Dad was involved in a lot of crime and the police were regularly coming to our door looking for him. From the age of three he always made sure I had a football and he'd make me play with much bigger kids. But he'd tell them, 'Kick him and if he moans he'll come in.' So I got taught to grow up very quickly.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be lost. One woman, a former Southern belle, now 87, a philanthropist, says, "Well, these young, their history's been stolen from them. And what have we done to make them respect us?"

Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age.

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.