The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. – W. H. Auden
I think that I got committed to physics at the age of – oh, it must have been 1942 – ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of ‘Shastra.’ – Sunidhi Chauhan
I’m often asked where my nickname ‘Kun’ comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman. – Sergio Aguero
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety. – Scott Stossel
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. – Will Durant
With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. – Vin Diesel
My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time – even now, at the age of 25. – Tena Desae
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age. – Ted Dekker
In the age of the internet when everybody’s a pundit, we’re still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that’s very expensive. – Walter Isaacson
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the ‘per billions’ of passengers. – Thomas P.M. Barnett
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all. – Wayne Dyer
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they’re getting older, et cetera. – Sela Ward
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age. – Suzanne Collins
Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That’s where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later. – Steven Ford
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. – Valorie Curry
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. – Tryon Edwards
But I’ve always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn’t be played past a certain age. – Sharon Gless
I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there’s no bubble to escape into. – Zoe Lister-Jones
Cinema isn’t just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It’s specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour. – Virginia Postrel
Age isn’t a barrier to playing the bass, and I’ve definitely improved over the years, although maybe I’m not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can’t imagine a life without a guitar. – Suzi Quatro
It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. – Virginia Woolf
My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven. – Sid Haig
The idea of being a ‘child star’ always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn’t have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation. – Tavi Gevinson
I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie – coaches would make deals with me so I’d do it. It’s a tough position as a kid. – Tim Howard
