Age Quotes - Page 36

• The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Kings, Book, Judging

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Memories, Home

  Margaret Drabble (2010). “The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.

  Rick Doblin

  Sex, People, Drug

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• Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

  Plato

  Faith, Opinion, Youth

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• With faith . . . we must walk to the edge of the light and into the darkness. As we so walk I testify and promise that the light will move. When I was your age and wondering some of the exact same things that you are now wondering, I never would have imagined that someday [we] would be at Ricks College serving as we are. . . . I know the light moves as we walk in faith to the edge of the light.

  David A. Bednar

  Faith, Moving, College

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• In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

  James Bryce

  Dream, Nature, Europe

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, Important

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.11, LSU Press

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• The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

  Horace Greeley

  Illusion

  The American Conflict ch. 1 (1864 - 1866)

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• The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

  Rob Lowe

  Teenager, Successful, Thinking

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• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  Zach Wamp

  Education, People, Healthy

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• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Creative, Misunderstood

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• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  Ursula Andress

  Thinking, Time To Think, Things To Do

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, edition.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Forgiving, Today

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• Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

  Jeff Ross

  Achievement, Canada, Lasts

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• Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Saving, Abandon

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• A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

  Billie Burke

  Past, Mind, Faces

  Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.64, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

  Bob Hope

  People, Aging, Young

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• I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.

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• Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

  Mark Twain

  Genius, Youth, Ripeness

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

  Terence McKenna

  Illusion, Compare, Liberation

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• If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Islamic, Mastery, Levels

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

  Kobe Bryant

  Player, Games, Cash

  "Kobe Right About Ego-and-Greed-Driven AAU Basketball" by Ken Reed, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• The ages between birth and age 5 are
  the foundation upon which successful
  lives are built.

  Laura Bush

  Successful, Foundation, Birth

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