Pastoral Resources

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

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.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.