Quotes About Impact

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

In a day and age of global competition and instantaneous financial flows, you have to be highly sensitive to the way in which tax policy impacts your overall competitiveness as a country.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!