3 December 2020 Bonnie Raitt I’ve watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
3 December 2020 Dan Stevens At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn’t cool and I wasn’t a nerd. I didn’t even want to fit in with anyone.
3 December 2020 Golda Meir Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick I’m a pretty big dork. It’s crazy. I’m one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where ‘Rent’ was a big deal for me and for my friends.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
3 December 2020 William Blake Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
3 December 2020 Edmond de Goncourt The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
3 December 2020 Mick Jagger I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
3 December 2020 Jock Sturges I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
3 December 2020 Tom Felton I think it’s pretty crazy to say you’ve been typecast at the age of 20 before you’ve even really started getting going.
3 December 2020 Colleen McCullough The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
3 December 2020 Julius Erving Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein It’s the golden age of French cinema again but it’s because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
