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“When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.”

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Author:Richard LaGravenese

“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.”

People Want Persons Care Young Energy Grows Class Careers Economy Cutting Middle Policy College Taxes Health Care Lifts Middle Class Wages Tax Cuts New Energy

Author:Barack Obama

“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”

“Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?”

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Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”

“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.”

World Trying Whole School Young Stuff Bits Hurt Class Middle Youth Drama Determined Theatre Middle Class Usual Hurt Me Sociable It Really Hurts Youth Theatre

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.”

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Author:Paddy Considine

“I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.”

Ifs Would Be Young Dies Teacher Wife Middle Youth Died Features Notable Middle Aged Young Writers Die Young Homeowners Young Wife

Book:The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Source: The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

“By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.”

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”

“The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.”

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Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.”

Dream Remember Young Women Middle Praying Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Barbara Cartland

“[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.”

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Author:Herbert Stein

“Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?”

Young Felt Love Is Wonderful Middle Terrible Ridiculous Vulnerable Young Love Middle Aged Old Love

Book:Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Source: Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

“The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.”

Men Way Persons Real Whole Seems Young Certain Easy Our Lives Middle Leaving Staying Being Real Discovering Complacency Middle Aged

Author:Conor McPherson

“So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.”

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Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.”

People Shows Young Women Attention Focus Middle Expecting Young Women Middle Aged

Author:Doris Lessing

“I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.”

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Book:Brewsie and Willie

Source: Brewsie and Willie

“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.”

People Way Young Parent Compassion Middle Youth Pride Adults Treats Tenderness Grandparent Elderly Avarice Middle Aged Disillusion Inhumane

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.”

“The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.”

“I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.”

Feels Writing Book Age Today Jobs Young Struggle Middle College Harder Middle Ages Glorify Full Time Jobs

Author:Toni Morrison

“It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.”

“There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.”

Men Life Young Passion Three Middle Appetite Three Things Middle Aged Covetousness

Author:Confucius

“I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.”

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Author:Anne Enright

“Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.”

“I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“I hope to inspire everyone - especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men - to not give up their dreams and to pursue them.”

People Men World Giving Country Dream Young Girl Opportunity Middle Inspire Giving Up Pursue Eastern Not Giving Up

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.”

Knows Men Care Jobs Faces Young Cities Behinds Grace Middle Management Evening Wheels Bus Secretary Elderly Files Tense Clerks Middle Management

Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

“War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.”

Men Has Beens War Young Dies Class Rich Middle Property Young Man Middle Class Old Man Lower Class

Author:George Carlin

“One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.”

Age Jobs Young Challenges Ability Middle Tests Workers Cynical Decline Middle Ages Premature Unproductive Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.”

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Author:May Sarton

“Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.”

Men Heart Age Young Lying Powerful Middle Rocks Movement Flower Band Late Function Impulse Young Man Teens Sixty Misogyny Seventies Fraternity Rock Bands Mods

Author:Michael Chabon

“Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.”

“I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.”

Running Young Night Boys Doors Middle Sitting Red Phones Breathing Cute Hotel Stairs Phone Calls Middle Of The Night

Author:Cameron Diaz

“It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.”

People Knows Shows Kids Young Bits Middle Fame Singing Shocking Spain

Author:Michael Buble

“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.”

Knows Men World Young Community Cities Middle Summer Europe East Young Man Tension Divided Middle East Eastern Instability Eastern Europe Missouri American Cities Ferguson

Author:Barack Obama

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

Men Want Age Young Nature Middle Young Man Smoking Weed Attributes Marijuana Middle Ages Soothing

Book:Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

“The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.”

Men Firsts Young Language Wife Middle My Wife Young Man Italian

Author:Clive James

“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.”

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Author:Matt de la Pena

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