Quotes of: Stone-age Keyword

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Dubliners

Bí ann nó as táimse ag triall Ort agus má tá cuirim geasa Ort mé a shábháil ón dream a deir gur fear fuar sa spéir Thú.

Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

The Dispossessed

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Empowerment Basics

Parting One is strong, a child now grown The other weak, a parent aged - The strong once feeble The weak once mighty - Time, the infinity has marked them...

Enigmatic Evolution

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Ender's Game

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Eugene Onegin

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Evernight

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

Flight Behavior

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Faefever

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

A Fatal Grace

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

Firestarter

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

A Fatal Waltz

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

The Gilded Age

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

The Hero of Ages

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

The Hero of Ages

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

How To Do It At Any Age