Quotes of: Younger-age Keyword

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social so...

Will Self

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

Zaha Hadid

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laug...

Robert Webb

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

Afterlife

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.

Arcadia

When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Hons and Rebels

(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character) Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?' 'eighteen' 'is that enforced' Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink

The Happiness Show

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

The Interestings

There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God.

The Judas Epidemic: Exposing the Betrayal of the Christian Faith in Church and Government

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories

Never, Never give up, no matter what is you age, magick always is there. Use it!

Rhyonna's Fright, A Faery's Challenge to Save Her Realm

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

The Seven Ages

His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen, when in an uncharacteristic error of judgement he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as he had hoped.

Shadow of the Badger

But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age." "I thought you liked redheads." "I do. What's your point?

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

The Spider's House

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir