Famous Quotes
- We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
- Jonathan Sacks on Age
- We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
- Benjamin Todd Jealous on Age
- We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
- Monica Edwards on Age
- We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
- Fred Allen on Age
- We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
- Muammar Al-Gaddafi on Age
- We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
- Lawrence Clark Powell on Age
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- William Hazlitt on Age
- We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
- Zoe Lister-Jones on Age
- We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
- Tony Robbins on Age
- We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
- Jane Fonda on Age
- We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
- Ken Calvert on Age
- We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
- Robin Morgan on Age
- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Age
- We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
- We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
- Guy Laliberte on Age
- We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
- Stokely Carmichael on Age
- We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
- Mary McLeod Bethune on Age
- We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.
- Thomas Frank on Age
- We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Age
- We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
- Thomas B. Macaulay on Age
- We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
- We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
- Theodore Bikel on Age
- We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
- Valerie Jarrett on Age
- We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
- Tom Brown, Jr. on Age
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
- J. J. Abrams on Age
- We live in an age of mediocrity.
- Lauren Bacall on Age
- We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Age
- We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
- Jock Sturges on Age
- We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
- David Hockney on Age
- We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
- Elton John on Age
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Age
- We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
- Maxwell Maltz on Age
- We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Age
- We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.
- Brian Sandoval on Age
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Age
- We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
- Barbara De Angelis on Age
- We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
- Ernest Istook on Age
- We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
- Jeremy Rifkin on Age
- We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
- Robert Mugabe on Age
- We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
- J. B. Priestley on Age
- We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy on Age
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
- Pearl S. Buck on Age
- We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
- Barry Lopez on Age
- We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
- Rodney Dangerfield on Age
- We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
- Roger Daltrey on Age
- We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
- Pete Townshend on Age
- We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
- George Saunders on Age
- We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
- Martha Beck on Age
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