#age

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#else #i #know #marriage #me

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#come #east #first #first time #i

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#damage #only #questions

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves." "So grass is death too-it grows out of our buried bodies. The grass was so many different things at once, it was bewildering. So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for God, and for hope. ↗

— John Green

#beauty

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#awe #brain #did #i #knew

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#art #gift #nature #work #youth

People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#down #dried #either #got #hippy

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#being #capability #confidence #gave #me