People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns. – Tom Shales
Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses. – Tavi Gevinson
I am just postmodern enough not to trust ‘postmodern’ as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. – Stanley Hauerwas
I don’t think people should do things because you know, ‘I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.’ If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it’s very nice. But if you don’t, you don’t. – Zaha Hadid
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school. – Sam Donaldson
I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York, I studied art and photography. I thought I would be a painter; then I saw Walker Evans when I was in college, and that had a great impact on me. Being in the darkroom making B&W prints was such a magical experience. – Sung Jin Park
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. – Yuichiro Miura
Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the reasons for that is it’s borrowed from other cultures along the way, back to Mosaic law, the Greek age of reason, Roman law and the Roman order of government, and the Republican form of government, by the way that we’re guaranteed in our constitution. – Steve King
I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up. – Saoirse Ronan
I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play’s the thing – not the 18-35 year old male age group. – Stephen Tobolowsky
I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy
Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it – age, weight, gender. – Tracee Ellis Ross
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man’s duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it. – William Cobbett
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. – Vivienne Westwood
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. – Tom Hanks
I have to have my sunscreen. It’s so important for wrinkle reduction but also to protect you from the sun. Whatever skin type one might have, whatever age they’re at, I think sunscreen is key. – Sufe Bradshaw
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths – anybody’s myths. But it was created for a rational age. – Tom Wolfe
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. – Theodore Bikel
I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a ‘National Day of Play.’ I’d help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes. – Wendy E. Long
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. – Xavier Becerra
I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on. – Saffron Aldridge
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport. – Saina Nehwal
I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage. – Theophilus London
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in ‘Swan Lake’ was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. – William Kempe
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. – W. Somerset Maugham
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. – Walter Pater