Age Quotes - Page 99

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.

I don't get discouraged because of the comments. After all, they don't really know me.

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

The best part really is once I'm up on the stage.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

Pain or damage don't end the world.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.