Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. "

Related Quotes:

" Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. "

" The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. "

" There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age. "

" I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter. "

" Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. "

" Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. "

Emily Dickinson

" As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. "

Andrew Carnegie

" 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. "

" If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life. "

" As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. "

" India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. "

" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "

" New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. "

" None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The golden age is before us, not behind us. "

Simon the Zealot

" The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. "

" I get all fired up about aging in America. "

" I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. "

" I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today. "

" The mainstream is always under attack. "

" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "

" Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "

" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "

" Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. "

William Feather

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

Agatha Christie

" You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. "

Anthony Bourdain