The Border Ballads for instance and the Robin Hood Ballads clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

If you explode onto the scene at a very young age there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me that they would reward in more important ways like happiness.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook and she still cooks and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.