Age Difference Quotes

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.

  David Elkind

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

  Delia Ephron

  Nature, Children, Differences

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• I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

  Andy Gibb

  Change, Brother, Moving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Zoos, Thinking, Echoes

  Michel Houellebecq (2006). “The Possibility of an Island”, p.148, Vintage

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• Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My perspective on those issues had changed a lot. Without going into nerdy details about that play, there was something that still stuck with me. I still had the same joy in that dialogue and David Mamet's rhythm in terms of his writing. I felt like there was still something to explore.

  Julia Stiles

  Writing, Play, Differences

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long time. I used to hang out a lot on my own. I played a lot of weird games with a lot of imaginary people. I guess it's kind of roleplaying.

  Noel Fielding

  Brother, Children, Years

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

  Andy Gibb

  Brother, Years, Differences

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Brother, Years

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• When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

  Keri Russell

  Differences, Clubs, Mickey

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• While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.

  Ted Cruz

  Gay, Differences, May

  "On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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