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" If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? "

Robert Gould Shaw

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" I shall not grow conservative with age. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

" From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically. "

Richard Branson

" I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. "

" In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air. "

" I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions. "

" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything. "

Cristiano Ronaldo

" I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. "

" What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. "

Brigitte Bardot

" I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island. "

Matthew McConaughey

" Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. "

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

" Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. "

" Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. "

Frederick Jackson Turner

" At my age flowers scare me. "

" The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence. "

" At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. "

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

" When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. "

" You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe. "

" In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself. "

" It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body. "

Monica Bellucci

" Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age. "

Aung San Suu Kyi

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "