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" The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. "

Randall Jarrell

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" I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. "

" 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.' "

" I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it. "

" Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. "

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

" When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. "

Theodor Mommsen

" You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. "

Self-Confidence

" Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. "

" I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. "

" 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. "

" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage. "

" I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' "

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

" Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. "

" There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age. "

" Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. "

" In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. "

" As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher. "

" I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!' "

" I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50. "

" 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

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually. "

" It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. "

" Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. "

Washington Irving

" 'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel. "

Adriana Trigiani

" Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. "

" Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges. "

" Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. "

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" Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. "

Charles Kingsley