Top 1200 Coming Of Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.

Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

I feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw 'The Office' coming, I never saw 'Inside Out' coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life.

Any age is the perfect age to follow your dream!

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.

It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

I was probably on a horse before the age of three. From a very young age, I could ride on my own, work, trot, you name it.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.

I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

I don't see coming down to London and talking to people and making TV shows as real work. The only reason I do it is because they keep coming up with decent ideas.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.

I got in the limelight at a young age. At age 19, people were already comparing me to Anderson Silva.

Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

I want to show guys that when they get up in age, if you love the game and you go out and work hard, it shouldn't matter what age you are.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a 'down-payment', on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Me tweeting sometimes, it's like, I don't even remember what I say. It's just coming off how it's coming off.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

I never really get to play a character who's my own age. I kind of look a little bit younger for my age.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

I love our Polynesian designs, whether or not it is coming from Samoa, as I have some of my designs coming from, or right from home in O'ahu.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde