“ I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency. ”
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“ Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased. ”
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“ While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth. ”
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“ We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are? ”
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“ I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role. ”
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“ Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ”
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“ But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ”
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“ Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though. ”
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“ When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that. ”
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“ My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker. ”
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“ Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. ”
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“ Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love. ”
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“ At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role. ”
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“ I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. ”
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“ I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it. ”
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“ It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago. ”
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“ I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. ”
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“ Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? ”
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“ The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. ”
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“ The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it. ”
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“ I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. ”
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“ Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. ”
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“ He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ”
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“ In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law. ”
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“ Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts. ”
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