Quotes of: Coming-of-age Keyword

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

Terry Jones

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

Ajax Penumbra 1969

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

In the Age of Love and Chocolate

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

The Age of Innocence

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

The Age of Innocence

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The Age of Innocence

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

The Age of Innocence

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

The Age of Miracles

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The Age of Reason

Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.

The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance

The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and .

The Age of Reason

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

The Age of Reason