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“I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.”

World Book War Kids Age Today Remember Father My Own Gone Army Compare War Of The Worlds Officers Catastrophe Grandchildren Bombarded Bombarded By Army Officers

Author:Lois Lowry

“I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.”

Years Littles Age Guy Bits Differences Gone Couple Little Bit

Author:Sofia Vergara

“This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.”

Littles Age My Own Behinds Gone Generations Middle Findings Mentor Middle Ages New Generation

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“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

“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

“You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.”

Humans Moments Age Film Certain Realizing Born Gone Grew Moon Speech Grew Up Rockets No Money Nolan

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Kind Age Humanity Fighting Enemy Gone Modern Bravery Killing Despise Warfare Modern Warfare

Author:Robertson Davies

“I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.”

Thinking Age Gone Huge Shapes Favors Staying My Future

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?”

Thinking Wells Heart Has Beens Stills Age Fun Grows Break Gone Growing Up Minutes My Heart Daughter Boring My Daughter Weekend Hitting Talk To Me Breaking My Heart

Author:Barack Obama

“In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later.”

People Should Years Has Beens Age Hours Natural Gone Expectations Employment Holiday Retiring Entry

Author:Hugh Gaitskell

“Nobody fights with Jerry because you know the price would be too high. You might come out the winner, at his age, you might even lick him, but you'd lose an eye, an arm, your testicles in the process, everything would be gone.”

Knows Might Would Be Eye Age Funny Fighting Process Loses Gone Arms Winner Nba Jerry Testicles

Author:Frank Layden

“It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]”

Should Age Laughing Gone Stage Thee Decent

Author:Horace

“We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.”

Age Lasts Joy Gone Clear Burning Flames Fades Equanimity

Book:War and Laughter

Source: War and Laughter

“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”

Children Stills Soul Age Lying Gone Doubt Childhood Drawing Shore Mist Misty

Book:Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

“I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.”

Looks Age Gone Thousand Ten Insult Threatened Chivalry

Book:The Works of Edmund Burke

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke

“To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.”

World Doe Art Age Artist Courses Voice Gone Successful Talent Skills Presses Property Being Successful Volume Microphones

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.”

Knows Done Age Time Water Hours Gone Salt

Book:The Infinite Plan: A Novel

Source: The Infinite Plan: A Novel

“It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.”

Giving Moments Bigs Inspiration Age Left Business Gone Greed Scales Titles Enterprise Flags Glamour Covetousness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.”

Hands Age Certain Gone Fate Greatness Eloquence Hand In Hand

Book:Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton

Source: Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton

“each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.”

Age Gone Generations Shoulders Revolt

Book:Out of the Flame

Source: Out of the Flame

“An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.”

Men Matter Age Watches Gone Our Lives Stage Scene Stranger Tone Touched What Matters Reversal

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.”

Children Age Gone Tree Evolution Chimpanzees

Book:This Giddy Globe

Source: This Giddy Globe

“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.”

People Men Age Enjoy Common Gone Capitalism Common Man Inaccessible Amenities

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!”

Age Past Moving Born Gone Revolution Dawn Over It Get Over

Author:Deborah Copaken

“In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.”

Littles Age Gone Middle Naked Enjoyment Middle Ages

Author:Mason Cooley

“Age: I go slower as time goes faster.”

Age Time Gone Faster

Author:Mason Cooley

“In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.”

World May Different Age Spiritual Form Spirit Humanity Community Gone Groups Development Tradition Harmony Unity Loyalty Remarkable Historic Fellowship Mystic Different Religions

Author:Haile Selassie

“I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.”

Knows Has Beens Would Be Age Deals Gone Wonderful Critics Bitter Playwright

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.”

World Kids Age Gone Saws Television Mad Nephew Niece My Niece Niece And Nephew

Author:Jack Nicholson

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.”

Age Gone Dear Dear Friend

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.”

Thinking Years Age Film Gone Path Terrible Directors Hollywood Cinema

Author:Woody Allen

“Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.”

Age Steps Gone Revolution Trials Jury Reformation Constellations Freedom Of The Press Trial By Jury Habeas Corpus

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.”

Writing Years Mind Body Age Reading Forget Gone Difficulty Newspapers Infirmity

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I look at younger girls and I think, 'Doesn't she look great? Isn't she pretty?' And while I know I'll never be there again, I'm past the age of feeling jealous. Maybe in my 30s I would have been, but that part of my life has gone.”

Thinking Knows Looks Has Beens Feelings Age Past Girl Gone Jealous

Author:Trinny Woodall

“We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.”

Ifs Giving Stills Would Be Age Chance Gone Forever Building Periods Europe Remains Sacred Viewers Gothic

Author:Bernd Becher

“The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.”

World Want Use Age Cities Gone Conditions Built Profession Planning Adopted New Age Ornaments Railroads Old World Gunpowder City Planning Times Gone By

Author:Horace Bushnell

“People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.”

People Thinking Writing Age Certain Gone Happened Comfortable Married Angst

Author:Lucinda Williams

“What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.”

Needs Age Wealth Gone Conditions Socialism Ideology Distinguished Thorough Endorsements

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.”

Age Gone Mad Hated Starks

Author:Twiggy

“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.”

Men Years Firsts I Can Age Gone Youth Emotional Drama Scene Logic Investment Notion Timing Connecting Emotional Investment

Author:Tom Courtenay

“I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.”

Ifs Thinking Age School Parent Gone Grew Cost Grew Up Prison South Valleys Realised Wales

Author:Thighpaulsandra

“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”

Littles Age Courses Gone Air Revolution Argument Absurd Ice Coming Out Carbon Temperature Carbon Dioxide Industrial Revolution Ice Age

Author:Reid Bryson

“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”

War Age Friendship Gone Dying Aging Engaged Sentimental Seventies Battlefields

Author:St. Jerome

“I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do.”

Years Firsts Important Moments Would Be Age Wanted Remember House Felt Causes Waiting Natural Secret Gone Stage Six First Time Window That Moment Six Year Olds

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.”

Age School Night Left Gone Groups College Six Absolutes Hanging Out Every Night Really Great Blast Great Friend

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

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