Ager Quotes

#1. I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Jones

#2. To Stanley Ager, the gift of human "service" was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.

Stanley Ager

#3. I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alanis Morissette

#4. When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#5. One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean

#6. As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Rosemary Mahoney

#7. For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.

John Irving

#8. I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Kenneth Lonergan

#9. Years ago, I met once a week, 9 A.M. sharp, with a therapist whom I will call Dr. Mason. We would settle in well-worn chairs, Dr. Mason, a slender, balding middle-ager in blazer and striped tie, and me, an anxious academic in Levi's and tweeds.

Lee Gutkind

#10. I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

Jencarlos Canela

#11. I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

Dana Hill

#12. I was feeling like the only person in the world. So I went downstairs.

Auric Adams

#13. Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

D. V. Ager

#14. It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

D. V. Ager

#15. Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

Deborah Ager

#16. Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft
certainly not
but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

D. V. Ager

#18. We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

Maurice Ager

#19. The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Lewis Mumford

#20. Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

D. V. Ager

#21. Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

D. V. Ager

#22. Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff.

Kate Christensen

#23. Perhaps it is too late. I want to run
the beach's length, because it never ends.

Deborah Ager

#24. It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student ... have now been debunked.

D. V. Ager

#25. He blinks; he has to swallow back tears. The parlor

Anthony Doerr