Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

My dad--he would call it timeless, or classic. The type of beauty that no matter what time, age or era, would always still be beautiful. She was beautiful.

More Than Her

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

Notes from the Cafe

Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Norwegian Wood

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

The Life of Cesare Borgia

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.

Lifeboat

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Limitations

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Shatter Me

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie

Summer Camp Survival

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

Things Fall Apart

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Thinking Skills - Using Your Brain in the Information Age

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

Dr. Thorne

That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Orient

Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After

Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

Prometheus Unbound

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you’re trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

Qeya

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Tuesdays with Morrie