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At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about age, olderness, school, state

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about age, olderness, poetry, reason

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about country, age, olderness

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about olderness, death, age, old, life, destiny, absolute, time

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Quote by Colin Firth about age, olderness, people

These were profane when my parents were my age, and I expect they will still be profane when my children are my age.

Quote by Doug Ose about parents, age, olderness, children

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about olderness, age, old, sadness, man, fear, death

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about olderness, age, old, poets

Tenderness comes with age, bitterness, as well - age reveals everything in the obscure room of the time.

Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about age, olderness, time

Women are passionate about Mathematics. They are dividing their age in two, doubling the price of clothes and always add five years to age of best friend.

Quote by Marcel Achard about woman, mathematics, age, olderness, clothes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely...

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about age, olderness, youth, life

Education is the best provision for old age.

Quote by Aristotel about education, olderness, age, old

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Quote by William Wordsworth about wisdom, age, olderness, mind

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Quote by Muhammad Ali about age, olderness, old

You will recognise, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realise for the first time how young the policeman look.

Quote by Seymour Hicks about age, olderness, old, time

I got drunk for the first time at age 9. I used drugs for the first time in junior high. I started getting sober in 1983.

Quote by Willie Aames about drugs, time, age, olderness

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about money, age, olderness

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

Quote by Paula Abdul about limits, age, olderness

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

Quote by Randy Bachman about night, age, olderness, people

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Quote by Randy Bachman about gifts, age, olderness, music