Quotes of: Coming-of-age Keyword

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Ricky Jay

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Rem Koolhaas

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

Robin S. Sharma

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

Rohit Shetty

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

Ron Santo

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

Ronnie Wood

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Ruby Wax

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

Sandy Adams

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

Sharron Angle

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Sandra Bullock

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Shirley Bassey

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

Sally Hawkins

If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.'

Stanley R. Jaffe

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Steven Spielberg

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

Sophie Winkleman

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Trey Anastasio

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.

Trudi Canavan