Quotes of: Younger-age Keyword

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

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Drawing on my past experiences, I used a lot of erasers. My aging wisdom is starting to look a lot like a nude portrait of Alice Neel.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.

Undone: Odette, Elle & me

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Uneasy Money

If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do.

Unrequited

So many interests compete for our young people, from drug barons to sex traffickers who are constantly looking for ways to revive their ageing workforce

The Unseen Terrorist

We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.

Victorian England: Portrait of an Age

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

Wildwood Boys

Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

Warm Bodies

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

Walter Scott's Personality Parade

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.

Write like no one is reading

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

Crusader's Cross

Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.)

Midnight's Children

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

Paul Hawken

Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

Paul Stamets