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“Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.”

Age Space Adventure Months Golden Exploration Boldness Space Exploration Golden Age

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.”

Body Age Cities Darkness Brother Huge Clouds Old Age Dust Frail Overtaking

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.”

Ifs Giving Should May Age Difficult Acting Danger Periods Built Aging Old Age Satisfying

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.”

Years May Self Age Freedom Ability Childhood Old Age Being The Best Self Centered

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.”

Done Age Perfect Old Age Who We Are Perfectionism

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.”

Knows Kind Age Time Differences Honesty Commodity Ruthless

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste”

Giving States Age Taste Presses Architecture Shops Toys Royal Printing Bad Taste Printing Press Druids

Book:An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography

Source: An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography

“In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.”

Men Age Choices Prisoner Tyrants Traitor Infamy

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining time? ...Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?”

Littles Stills Ends Done Age Artist Retiring Twilight Grain

Author:Eric Maisel

“Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.”

People Writing Has Beens Character Stories Age Process My Own Novel Gone Evolve Coming Of Age Publishing Parallels Charging Eragon

Author:Christopher Paolini

“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”

Done Age Past Easy Effort Contact Abstraction

Author:Piet Mondrian

“Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.”

World Firsts Persons States Hands Seems Age Past Moving Humanity Dies Information Materials Evidence Blind Entertainment Speed Senses Perceive Goods Deaf Acquaintance Deaf And Blind

Author:Julian Simon

“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30”

Want Feels Age Young Family Careers Football International More Time Retiring Age 30

Author:Robbie Savage

“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”

People Trying Believe Art Age Wish Middle Fancy Spells Middle Ages

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.”

Feels Firsts Sometimes Age Wish Boys

Author:S. E. Hinton

“There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.”

Years Age Middle Thirds Holiday Leisure Festivals Idleness Middle Ages

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.”

Needs Feels Self Age Aging Naked Portraits Reminders Acid Self Portrait Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.”

Art Seems Age Spirit Loss Originals Bounds Surface Inevitable Immortality Great Art Rebirth New Age

Book:The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination

Source: The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination

“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.”

Needs Children Seems Age Dies Natural Curiosity Hunger Ignorant Explanation

Author:Mahlon Hoagland

“People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.”

People Knows Feels Looks Age Numbers Attitude Five Twenties Aging Feel Good These Days Twenty Five I Feel Good Ages Is Just A Number

Author:Rita Moreno

“Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.”

Doe Matter Care Age Answers Half Issues Empty Glasses Realism Thirst Who Cares Quench Half Full Half Empty

Author:Larry Winget

“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.”

Humans Age Together Term Common Responsibility Wonder Democracy Rights Happened Heard Sacrifice Movement Concepts Ideals Obligation Willingness Common Good Personal Sacrifice

Author:John Rosemond

“Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.”

Age Artist Survival Suspects Acceptable Starving Starving Artist

Author:Robert Genn

“I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”

People Heart Art Age Felt Race Environment Effects Strange Expression Future Lonely New Age Unfolding Brooding Fostering Place And Time

Author:Lawren Harris

“I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My wife and I have been going to a personal trainer for weights and balance twice a week for 10 years. My balance has improved tremendously and the weights decrease my age. I only feel 52, not 82.”

Feels Years Heart Has Beens Two Age Walks Morning Wife Week Balance My Heart Exercise Weight Increase Aging Rate My Wife Hills Each Day Bike Decrease Trainers Heart Rate

Author:Robert Bateman

“When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.”

Years Age America Left Flower Bird Aging Best Times North America

Author:Robert Bateman

“Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.”

Long Age Artist Cases Conditions Aging Old Age Permanent Excitement Explanation Stimulation

Book:A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

“Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.”

Years Age Form Objects Habit Six Worthy Fifty Dissatisfaction Sketching Pictorial

Book:Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849

Source: Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849

“I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.”

Looks Stills I Can Age Lines Improvement Old Age Tone Colour Composition One Line

Author:E. J. Hughes

“As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.”

Art Stills Bigs Age Art Is Experiments

Author:E. J. Hughes

“I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.”

Ifs Should Said Age Young Names Wonder Youth Capacity Increase Add Unfamiliar Paraphrase Being Old

Author:Wolf Kahn

“It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.”

Soul Age Religion Religious Accidents Thinker Science And Religion Science Religion God And Science Science God

Author:Max Planck

“In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.”

Age Loses Principles Courage Willing Conviction Approval Popularity Contests Posterity Deserving

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.”

“There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.”

Heart Age Joy Mystery Blood Scene Members Aging Ties Marvelous Compulsion Family Members New Family

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Wrecked on the lee shore of age.”

Age Aging Shore

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!”

Knows Children Age Funny Secret Streets Cry Kissing Ears Aging Beloved Hopeless Multitudes Old People Elders Senior Citizen Aging And Wisdom

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”

Age Fool Healthy Creatures Fellows Aging Old Age

Author:Richard Steele

“In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.”

Source: Silent Spring

“...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.”

Men Done Age Death Destiny Lovers Suicide Giants Great Love Stature Great Lovers

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”

Age Today Time Names Peace Cities Generations Changed Flower Masters Battle Peaceful Ruins Nothingness Wales Daisies Hyacinths Periwinkle

Author:Edgar Quinet

“I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.”

Should Problem Age Concern Aging Old Age Getting Old Pondering

Book:Speeches

Source: Speeches

“In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.”

Life War Age Peace Harmony Obligation Loser Restraint

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.”

Age Money Education Luxury This Day Truism

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.”

Men Art Philosophy Age History Genius Destined Lighting Meteors

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

World Long Soul Ends Moments Age Nations Hours Sleep Powerful Steps India Awake Strokes Midnight Utterance India Independence Day Indian Independence Day

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.”

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

World Humans Mean Self Facts Age Law Young Science Found Human Beings Pure Enlightenment Gains Agree Impression Fascinated Evident Young Age Succession Scientific Method Regularity

Author:Max Planck

“O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!”

Love Stills Seems Age Gone Strange Hair And Love Aging Winter Gray Life And Love Time And Change Winter Days

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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