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" Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. "

Washington Irving

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" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "

" I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. "

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" When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. "

Washington Irving

" The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. "

" A grownup is a child with layers on. "

Woody Harrelson

" I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it. "

" Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man. "

" Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. "

" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "

" The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. "

George Santayana

" I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age. "

" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer. "

" For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. "

" A man growing old becomes a child again. "

" We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer. "

Charles H. Townes

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

" I think I've really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38. "

" I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. "

" In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. "

" If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. "

Marshall McLuhan

" Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. "

" I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50. "

" One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age. "

" I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. "

" We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time. "