At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

— Milla Jovovich

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

— Sally Mann

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Brian, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Brian.

— Fidel Castro

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

— Shakira

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

— Epicurus

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

— Hesiod

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.

— Frank Abagnale

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

— Ma Jun