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" We tried not to age, but time had its rage. "

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W. Somerset Maugham

" Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play. "

" My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family. "

" The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. "

George Edward Woodberry

" Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. "

" The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. "

" In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. "

Brooks Atkinson

" I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. "

" In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished. "

" I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things. "

Kathryn Minshew

" 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

" Being seventy is not a sin. "

" Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. "

" Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering. "

Elizabeth Berkley

" Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. "

" My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog. "

Kate Christensen

" O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" 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. "

" People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?' "

" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "

" I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. "

" I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful. "

" I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important. "

" I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age. "

" Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. "

" If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! "

Sam Taylor-Johnson

" What is an adult? A child blown up by age. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. "

" Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. "