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“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

Wells Age School Born Half Teacher Four Educated Admirable Thirteen Well Educated

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.”

Done Bigs Running Age Four Missing Six Discovery Miles Beast Parks Loops I Smile Stanley Vancouver

Author:Michael Weatherly

“As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.”

People Age Young Four Meditation Buddhism Zero Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.”

“In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.”

Men World Made Running Age Four Changed Ignorance Periods Glory Bird Ran Beast Enlightened Contempt Daring Infidelity Politeness Idolatry Barbarism Extravagant

Author:William Carey

“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”

Age Faces Common Four Wall Plenty Prisoner Sixty Four Walls

Author:Albert Kesselring

“How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.”

“He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.”

Age Funny Four Eight

Author:Dorothy Parker

“But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamentalists who condemn New Age channelers do not dismiss it as a fraud..., but instead think that Ramtha and the others are channeling demons. If they said it was sheer delusion, they know where the other four fingers would wind up pointing!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Said Age Cases Four Atheism Effects Wind Fingers Positive Atheism Demon Delusion Suspects Fraud Sheer They Said New Age Pointing Channeling Personal Relationships

Author:Robert M. Price

“I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.”

Art Age School Young Study Four Students Involved Piano Boards Royal Young Age

Author:Monica Raymund

“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.”

Stories Age Used Father Watches Four Down And Grandfather My Grandfather Daydreaming Watch Movie

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”

Way Ideas Would Be Age Four Husband

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

“My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.”

Years Looks I Can Age Three Can Do Four Hundred

Book:Conversations with Joan Crawford

Source: Conversations with Joan Crawford

“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.”

Way Kids Age Three Attention Four Singing My Way

Author:Kiki Dee

“Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.”

Firsts Has Beens Age Four Guitar Obsession Junkie

Author:Johnny Marr

“From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.”

Play Age School Four Band Ballet Choir School Plays School Band

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.”

Years Age Five Four Five Years Five Year Olds Stooges

Author:Chris Diamantopoulos

“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”

Should Writing Book Ideas Age Consciousness Five Four Grew Six Grew Up Should Have Twenties Down And Settling Abandon Sooner Or Later True Nature Seventeen Settling Down

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

Years Children Light Age Death Mother Four Wife Son Huge Birth Kings Daughter Hundred Died Heavy Score Forty Four Years Utopia Suffocating Birth Of A Child

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.”

Age Women Marriage Four Twenties Prudent

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.”

Long Two Enough Age Success Time Three Hope Wish Change Realizing Courage Four Succeed

Author:Earl Nightingale

“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”

Children Play Age Today Used Three Games Four Adults Infancy Pastime Only Child Specialization Children Playing

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”

Men Years Two Whole Body Age Death Water Five Four Months Six Substance Colour Fifty Stomach Four Years Six Months Fluid Beans Troublesome Vomiting Spleen

Author:Giovanni Battista Morgagni

“One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees.”

Giving Mind Mean Age Five Four Bears Degrees Computer Models Depth Ice Temperature Ice Age

Author:Martin Rees

“What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.”

People World Ideas Age Term Talking Known Morning Four Good Things Digital Openness Transparency Places In The World Digital Age Weird Places Sharing Ideas

Author:Jodie Foster

“It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."”

Should Writing Important Might Age Asks Four Sixty Should I

Author:W. H. Auden

“We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.”

World Years Humans Made Age Today Past Four Information Years Ago Four Years Google Human History World Today Overload Information Overload

Author:Daniel Levitin

“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.”

Years Firsts Littles I Can Home Age Young Three Memories Four Feet Balls Four Years Young Age Neighbourhoods

Author:Lionel Messi

“I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!”

Self Age Four Taught Dad My Dad Self Taught

Author:Eric Hernandez

“I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”

Heart Has Beens Age Three Fear Justice Deals Four Despair Summer Bird Garden Glad Enjoyed Consumption Pursued

Author:John Webster

“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.”

People Writing Years Looks Book Age Literature Talking Four Yeah Come Up Instance Comic Fantastic Affected Comic Book Look At Me Aghast Fantastic Four

Author:Walter Mosley

“I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to play drums and my dad got me a set. I played for several years, but I wasn't meant to be a drummer, I guess. I can play drums on my own things - obviously on some of my own records I play drums. But I didn't start playing guitar until I was 11.”

Years Wells Kind I Can Play Age Wanted My Own Records Four Dad Guitar My Dad Meant To Be Drummer Banging Playing Guitar

Author:Shuggie Otis

“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”

Years Age Born Half Four Regret Half A Year

Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.”

Years Age Earth Four Evidence Bases Agree Billions Massive Physicist Qualified Biologist Geologist

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.”

Should Age Spiritual Path Four Special Yoga Stress Karma Karma Yoga Bhakti Yoga Bhakti Spiritual Freedom

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then you visit him eight years later and he's wearing polyester pants, he's four foot eight, you think he's gay, and you're like, 'Are you the guy I was afraid of?”

Thinking Years Hard Age School Remember Guy Teacher Four Feet Gay Eight Ass Grades Pants School Teachers Grades In School Himmler

Author:Jon Stewart

“I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.”

Age School Four Guitar Harmonicas

Author:Peter Ham

“People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.”

People Knows Writing Said Age Father Born Four Happened Heard Theory Music Is Symphony Conductor Affinity

Author:William Shatner

“By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Age School Millions Four Heard High School Average Four Years Receiving Assistance Disadvantages Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Sal Albanese

“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.”

Men Feels Years Children Different Age Mother Culture Three Father Parent Five Four College Married Majors Our Children Seven Five Years Divorced Eleven Anthropology Eighteen Different Cultures

Author:Lily King