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Age Quotes

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

– John le Carre

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

– John F. Kennedy

Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there’s no question about it. And it’s very simple to understand why – half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.

– Jorge Ramos

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age – less than a year old – and grew up and was educated in the West.

– Hooman Majd

I think It’s a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people’s Golden Age of music is still the ’60s.

– Jonny Greenwood

My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.

– Jason Bateman

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

– John Adams

I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn’t fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

– John Cena

Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.

– Jane Leavy

I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

– Jason Mraz

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That’s just a date when you were born.

– Jose Mourinho

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices – at any age – we are absorbed in someone else’s perspective.

– Julia Cameron

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

– Juliana Hatfield

The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That’s when I find it to be the most challenging.

– Itzhak Perlman

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

– Janeane Garofalo

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

– John Henry Newman

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

– Jill Lepore

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

– James Mattis

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.

– Ishmael Beah

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

– Jerry Saltz

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

– Ja Rule

No man is ever old enough to know better.

– Holbrook Jackson

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

– Jean de la Bruyere

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy… the list goes on.

– J. Michael Straczynski

I’d like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

– James McAvoy

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn’t happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

– Jeff Dunham

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth – in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

– Jane Fonda

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

– Gunter Grass

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close ‘What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o’clock in the morning’ policing. We need to be careful it doesn’t drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

– James Comey

I don’t reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It’s usually just what plays into what’s believable – ‘Am I believable at this age?’

– Joel Kinnaman

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