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" A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. "

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" When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later. "

" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "

Christopher Hitchens

" The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. "

Rosalyn S. Yalow

" Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it. "

Pamela Druckerman

" I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. "

" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "

" I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things. "

Kathryn Minshew

" It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know? "

" In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. "

Marshall McLuhan

" In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. "

" No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. "

Barbara De Angelis

" Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation. "

" I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage. "

" I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down. "

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

" If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. "

" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "

" There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. "

" Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed. "

" After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. "

" At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history. "

" At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. "

Benjamin Franklin

" The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. "

" I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well. "

" I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. "

" I think monogamy exists when you're of age. I'm not saying that's good, but in today's time, a female won't honestly get a full commitment until they're at least 25 or 26. That's not good, but that's how it is. "

" To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act. "

" Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age. "

" Age is not our fault. "

Goenawan Mohamad

" I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in. "