Quotes of: Coming-of-age Keyword

A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.

The Fever

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

The Gilded Age

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Great House

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

Historians In The Middle Ages

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

Happy Birthday!

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

The Happy Endings Book Club

Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.

The Happy Endings Book Club

We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

Blind in Justice

Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers.

Beautiful Ruins

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

City of Ashes

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

Alan Arkin

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

Alexis Arguello

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Ama Ata Aidoo

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Adam Brody

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.

Ambrose Bierce

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

Anne Burrell

When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.

Anthony Browne

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

Armin van Buuren

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.

Alice Dreger