People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. – Graydon Carter
My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep’. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow. – Howard Schultz
Even though arguably I could have done much better at school, I’d decided at a young age that I was going to be a professional sportsman at some sport. And at that stage, there was a bit of luck: I was fortunate to meet the right people at the right time to get me to where I am now. – Greg Rutherford
I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you’re just not late when it’s time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age. – Greg Brenneman
I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun. – Heather Graham
I have read only the first ‘Harry Potter’ book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them. – Gene Wolfe
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that. – Howard Schultz
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. – G. Stanley Hall
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. – Grace Abbott
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren’t film stars or theatre actors; they’re very much both. – Harry Lloyd
I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably. – Heinrich Boll
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. – Harrison Ford
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity. – Howard Fast
When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, ‘Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.’ – Heber J. Grant
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age. – Henri Nouwen
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. – Herman Cain
It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to. – Heather Brooke
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time. – Helen Mirren
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass
All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard. – George Shearing
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial – arguably the first stage of a nation’s decline. – Graydon Carter
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let’s just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears. – Howard Jacobson
Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn’t thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can’t. It’s not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you’re going to give it back. It’s something that you can never repay someone for. – Grizz Chapman
It’s disturbing at my age to look at a young woman’s destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one’s own destructiveness in youth. – Helen Garner
