After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.
You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; ...
From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on the...
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
