Age Quotes - Page 186

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

Never go in a place that you wouldn't take your wife.

Those who don't manage their money will always work for those who do

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!'