Quotes of: Coming-of-age Keyword

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

John Doerr

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Lionel Barrymore

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Maya Angelou

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Mickey Gilley

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

Norman McLaren

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

Penn Jillette

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Ada Cambridge

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Angela Carter

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He ...

Anthony Browne

That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming ...

Ja Rule

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people w...

Tom Colicchio

I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me.

Kristen Stewart

In ev'ry life there comes a winter bleak That, in it, never yet seems life to come And on each heart such desolation wreak That even light from Heaven seems succumb'. But, even as in year, doth follow Spring As ever hath it, through all Ages past Yet...

Stolen Moments

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hind...

Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy...

The Farming of Bones

Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have a high IQ number. My parents gave me the test.' That's the way I was, I guess. I am still a kid. I love doing kid activities. I'm such a ki...

Atticus Shaffer

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you wor...

Geoff Mulgan

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be ...

If You Ask Me

Tony Stark: [Clint is introducing the Avengers to his wife] She's an agent of some kind. Clint Barton: Everyone, this is Laura. Laura: Hi. [smiles] Laura: I already know who all of you are. Tony Stark: [Clint and Laura's kids come into view] [Bewilde...

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Clint Barton: [to Wanda] Doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight, and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good, I'll send your brother to come find you. But if you step out that door, you are an Avenger.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel

The Girl with All the Gifts