Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. "

Marshall McLuhan

Related Quotes:

" Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. "

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

" We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. "

John F. Kennedy

Self-Determination

" It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. "

" I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. "

James Broughton

" Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. "

" Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "

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

" An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. "

Agatha Christie

" Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. "

" I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. "

" I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. "

" Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love. "

Russell M. Nelson

" Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. "

" All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? "

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

" I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. "

" To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

" The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them. "

" Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. "

" Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. "

" With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview. "

Michael Connelly

" At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework. "

" When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age. "

Richard Branson

" At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it. "

" The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts. "

" There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. "

" It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "