Jake Sullivan Quotes

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

I like geography. I think I know every country in the world. If someone from another country plays for my team, I will know where he is from.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.