Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
I was given a stethoscope in a child’s ‘doctor’s bag’ at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
I’d had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn’t understand. And all it was, was because of the color of my skin, nothing I had done, nothing I had said.
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.
Probably the most formative thing was at the age of four my Granddad took me fishing. That actually became a major part of the rest of my life.
The earliest golfing memories that I have are of the Italian Open when I was about six years of age. Watching that event is how I really got started in the game.
I knew I wanted to act from a very young age – from about nine, really – but I didn’t know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
It is a free world. It is a dynamic of our new day and age: technology is everywhere.
I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don’t ever let that be known.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
For my book, ‘Age of Ambition,’ I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.
Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that’s part of their appeal. Usually they don’t grow up.
At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.
Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.
Age is a chronological number. That’s all. There is plenty of time for my life afterwards. I’m still a young woman.
This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.
Age brings a freedom. When you’re young, you’re much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
Youth, what man’s age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.
