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" I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. "

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" Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. "

Brigitte Bardot

" By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them. "

" Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. "

Louis Kronenberger

" 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. "

" At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these things we believe are true, that are just not true about what an audience wants. "

Soledad O'Brien

" It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. "

Amanda Seyfried

" You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took. "

" Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

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

" When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. "

Walter Cronkite

" With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health. "

" In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely. "

Maria Montessori

" Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. "

Emily Greene Balch

" Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. "

" Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. "

" What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself. "

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

" The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. "

" I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. "

" At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. "

" I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues. "

Khloe Kardashian

" As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age. "

Pranab Mukherjee

" The surest sign of age is loneliness. "

" One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. "

William Feather

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

" With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. "