#age

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#every #felt #finally #first #first time

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ↗

— George Gobel

#college #early #high #high school #keep

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#adult #average #better #boy #bright

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#beyond #both #conflicting #daddy #daughter

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#age

I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#everything-changed #featureless #first-time #change

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#pessimistic #unseemly

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older. ↗

— John Lanchester

#mother #old #stranger #age

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. ↗

— William Manchester

#age #another #any #came #corps

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#notoriety #success #age