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3 December 2020 Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn’t get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

3 December 2020 Miuccia Prada

I hate the idea that you shouldn’t wear something just because you’re a certain age.

3 December 2020 Julius Erving

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

3 December 2020 Irvin S. Cobb

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

3 December 2020 Demi Moore

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn’t trade. Women who lie about their age – ‘why?’

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

3 December 2020 David Hockney

In my old age, I’ll be in L.A.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

3 December 2020 Larry Hagman

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

3 December 2020 Thom Yorke

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won’t any by the time… he’s my age. That’s kinda hard to deal with.

3 December 2020 Leon Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

3 December 2020 Dean Kamen

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

3 December 2020 Bjork

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.

3 December 2020 Harrison Ford

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

3 December 2020 Simone de Beauvoir

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

3 December 2020 Edward Norton

I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

3 December 2020 Bryan Adams

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

3 December 2020 William J. Clinton

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

3 December 2020 Steven Morrissey

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you’re younger but now I just think ‘well everybody’s absolutely mad and I’m doing quite well’.

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