3 December 2020 Nadia Comaneci I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
3 December 2020 Andrew Carnegie As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
3 December 2020 Joyce Maynard Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
3 December 2020 Lois Wyse Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress.
3 December 2020 Li Ka Shing We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
3 December 2020 Shawn Johnson We’re taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you’re never perfect and that you’re never good enough.
3 December 2020 A. C. Benson When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
3 December 2020 Christopher Walken No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
3 December 2020 Trey Anastasio Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
3 December 2020 Logan P. Smith The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
3 December 2020 Sophia Loren There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
