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• Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

  R. L. Stine

  Topics in Age, Fear

  Tags in Waiting, Stay

• I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

  Queen Latifah

  Topics in Age

  Tags in People, Young

• You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it’s upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don’t like old women. We don’t honor age in our society, and we certainly don’t honor it in Hollywood.

  Tyne Daly

  Topics in Age, Society

  Tags in Women, Hollywood

• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

  Frances Burney

  Topics in Age, Respect

  Tags in Create, Treated

• I think I’m a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It’s not about being shameful, I’m just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Age, Fear

  Tags in Speaking, Before

• My best friend just had a baby, and she’s my age. So I’m a godmom now, which is crazy.

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Best, Crazy

• All my early school reports from the age of 5 were ‘Daniel must learn not to distract others.’

  Dan Stevens

  Topics in Age

  Tags in School, Must, Reports, Learn

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn’t cool and I wasn’t a nerd. I didn’t even want to fit in with anyone.

  Dan Stevens

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Cool, Broken, Problems

• It wasn’t until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

  Trevor Dunn

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Music

• It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Age, God

  Tags in Amazing, Unbelief

• We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Early

• I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

  Thom Gunn

  Topics in Age

• People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

  Thom Filicia

  Topics in Age

  Tags in People

• It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

  Torrie Wilson

  Topics in Age

• No lie ever reaches old age.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Age

• Not even old age knows how to love death.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Age, Death, Love

• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Age

• You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Age

• I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

  Sienna Miller

  Topics in Age
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  The secret staying young is to live honesty, Eat slowly,And lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Topics in Age, Honesty

  Tags in Young, Secret