Russell Baker Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Children, Parent

  Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.17, RosettaBooks

• People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

  Russell Baker

  Justice, People, Age

• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Age, Rereading

• In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Fashion, Love You

• After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.

  Russell Baker

  Pain, Father, Real

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing up”, Signet

• The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

  Russell Baker

  Environmental, Society, Age

• Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

  Russell Baker

  Military, Years, Age

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