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" I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. "

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" Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. "

" We live in an age of mediocrity. "

" 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. "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "

" Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. "

" A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Louis Kronenberger

" Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! "

Pierre Corneille

" I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. "

" Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. "

Maurice Chevalier

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

Henry David Thoreau

" I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. "

" To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. "

" I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago. "

" Age is how we determine how valuable you are. "

" My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age. "

Herschel Walker

" How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. "

" Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age. "

" In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. "

" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. "

" My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet. "

Mitch McConnell

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

" I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. "

" It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. "

" 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. "

" Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "