One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music. – Gustavo Santaolalla
The earth’s history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever. – Hugh Ross
As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist. – Harald zur Hausen
I will always have a soft spot for ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon,’ which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win. – Genevieve Valentine
I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace. – Henry James
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point. – George Kaiser
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. – Helen Hayes
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age. – Gunter Grass
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. – Hesiod
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. – Horace Walpole
I, of course, owe everything to my mother, because my father died when I was only nine days of age; and the marvelous teachings, the faith, the integrity of my mother have been an inspiration to me. – Heber J. Grant
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed. – Hans Jonas
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. – Harold Coffin
When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, ‘I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.’ – Heber J. Grant
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study. – Hedda Sterne
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing – it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. – Harlan Coben
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one’s tongue don’t move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose. – Hampton Sides
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. – Henri Frederic Amiel
When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them. – Heber J. Grant
On ‘Chatroom,’ everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well. – Hannah Murray
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. – Hedy Lamarr
When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver. – Heikki Kovalainen
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It’s simple, but it’s true, and your age is just an excuse. – Herschel Walker
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, ‘Tom and Jerry,’ and of course Disney. And also by Fellini’s ‘Giulietta of the Spirits’ and Kurosawa’s ‘Ran.’ And by other American illustrators and painters. – Henry Selick
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals. – Heather Brooke
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. – Howard Schultz
