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Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!”

Ifs Age Force Phrases Pregnant Quotations Lamps Thoughts On Life Forces Of Nature

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.”

Men World Age Solitude

Book:The Great Conversers, and Other Essays

Source: The Great Conversers, and Other Essays

“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”

World Years Real Age Class Hair Competition Thirty Hats Funeral Civilians Thirty Years Brits

Author:Peter York

“This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.”

Age Theater Specialization Anachronism

Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske

“Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.”

Source: Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States

“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”

Art Made Would Be Age Difficult Fund This Day Slurs

Author:Jane Alexander

“I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.”

Knows Different Age Know How Definitions Obscenity

Author:Jane Alexander

“Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.”

Stills Age Young Records Heard Musician Singers Compare Bother Bob Songwriters Young Age Dylan

Author:Black Francis

“I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.”

I Can Age Remember Song Folks Performing Boston Woody Folk Songs

Author:Black Francis

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.”

I Can Age Can Do Fifth

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.”

Age Young Talent Type Coaches Nadal

Author:Brad Gilbert

“Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.”

Thinking Long I Can Body Age Games Records Higher Pressure Athlete Fighter Recognition Japan Constantly Thinking

Author:Takeru Kobayashi

“It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.”

Important Age White Color Keys Teeth Attractive Lighters White Teeth

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.”

Age Knowing Healthy Aging Being Afraid

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.”

Way Real Whole Stories Seems Age Natural Mom My Mom Drawing Whole Life My Sister Extensions Animation

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.”

People Age Young Used House Laughing Listening Mom My Family My Mom Display Young Age Making People Laugh Laughs And Smiles

Author:Lara Pulver

“At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.”

Age School Nine Violin

Author:Noel Redding

“I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.”

I Can Age Deals Periods Tough

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.”

I Can Use Age Perfect Performances Lifetime Because I Can Perfect Things

Author:Fritz Weaver

“I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.”

People Age Hate Effects Honest I Hate Photograph Tricks Being Honest Telling The Truth

Book:August Sander:

Source: August Sander:

“A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.”

Dream Age Moving Strong Love Is Greater Minutes Greatness Weak Filled Patterns Granted Splendor

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.”

People Men Important War Matter States Age Dies Military Confidence Essentials Elements Old Age Rulers Nevertheless Lacking Equipment Starvation Military Equipment

Author:Confucius

“My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.”

Years Important Ideas Age Turns Sorry Maturity I'm Sorry

Author:W. H. Auden

“But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.”

Age Certain Limits Deserve

Author:C. S. Lewis

“This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.”

Age Common Common Sense Warrants

Book:The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

Source: The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

“Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.”

Art Age Certain Individual Religious Genius Art Is Tradition Supreme Statements Traditional Abandoned Heroic Religious Truth

Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.”

Age Youth Old Age Chaste

Author:Andre Gide

“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.”

“Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.”

World Age Aging Grandfather Grandparent Educator Parents And Grandparents Grandparents Day Best Grandparents

Book:Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good

Source: Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good

“Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.”

Dream Age Youth Greatness Aging Old Age Follow Your Dreams

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.”

Age Youth Skills Overcoming Aging Treachery

Author:Ioan Gruffudd

“As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.”

“When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."”

Firsts Age Parent Dear Driven Paradise Transition Adam Adam And Eve

Book:Labels & Libels

Source: Labels & Libels

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.”

Age Spiritual Forget Virtue Holy Charity Devotion Proportion Never Forget Spiritual Life Sacraments Eucharist Holy Eucharist Eucharistic Adoration

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Love Mean Made Stills Problem Age Hair Roots Skins Management Shoes Convinced Intensity Inches Anger Management

Book:True

Source: True

“And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don't matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.”

Knows Men World Love Matter Hard Age Lying Enjoy Knowing He Man Everyday Chests Love Someone Outside World Everyday Things

Book:Hot Finish

Source: Hot Finish

“Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!”

Body Age

Author:Sue Thoele

“I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age”

Children Age Suffering Humanity Millions Modern Committees Nobel Plight I Am Thankful Modern Age

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“People age even when you're not looking.”

People Age

Author:R. K. Milholland

“Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.”

Firsts Age Animal Higher Mountain Structure Invention Kingdoms Cells Organs Worms Tissues Animal Kingdom Cellular

Author:John M. Tyler

“What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!”

Men Has Beens Age Known Destiny Genius Classic Remarkable Companion Posterity Homage

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.”

Use Age Enjoy Generations Future Acquisition Antiquity Transmit

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”

Years Made Age Known Heard Thousand Thousand Years Pyramids Pharaohs Khufu

Author:Michael Tsarion

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