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Quotes About Awareness

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.
~ Susan Jeffers
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
~ Bertha von Suttner
People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.
~ Jack LaLanne
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
~ Robert Johnson
A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.
~ Jerry Pournelle
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.
~ Martin Gore
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.
~ Drew Brees
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.
~ Marshall McLuhan
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
~ Neil Gaiman
I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.
~ Robert Cray
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.
~ Devendra Banhart
Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough
~ Brad Pitt
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
~ John Marsden
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
~ Pico Iyer
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
~ Baha'u'llah
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
~ Pico Iyer