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

Henry David Thoreau

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" I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.' "

" At my age flowers scare me. "

" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work. "

Chirlane McCray

" That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people. "

" The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever. "

Iain De Caestecker

" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "

Christopher Hitchens

" What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. "

Robert Browning

" Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will. "

Lysander Spooner

" I'm not afraid of aging. "

" Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother. "

" Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. "

Dorothy Thompson

" I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" 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

" Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

" The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. "

" In youth we learn; in age we understand. "

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

" Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. "

" I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. "

Henry David Thoreau

" To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. "

" Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security. "

" Youth is wasted on the young. "

George Bernard Shaw

" For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin. "