Sentences with phrase «at ripe old ages»

I started my first business at the ripe old age of 25.

He started selling goods at the ripe old age of 14 on Amazon and eBay after his parents told him to get a job.

You can never bankrupt student loans, and no one tells you when you sign up for them at the ripe old age of 18 that you are going to be paying more than your mortgage for your education for at least a decade after...

When I became a professional bond investor at the ripe old age of 38 in 1998, it was the opposite — almost all bonds traded at premiums, and had relatively high coupons.

As part of my studies in college, I had read the Kinsey studies about how common homosexual experiences were among straight men — and I fancied myself something of a sophisticate at the ripe old age of 21.

Give it a rest, because even a bully in a school yard would know that out of nothing nothing happens, but of course it would take the nerd to conceive what the bully would not get even perhaps at a ripe old age, that what was always before the something which lead to the «thing» on the bully's hand was the Infinite and that what's on the bully's hand can be infinitely divided, or that between the bully's pinky and thumb exists an infinity in itself, as is between the number 1 and another number 1 (one unit and another unit), which make 2, or that the bully's hand will at one infinitely minute point in time disolve into the INFINITE, give it a rest Tom, Tom with the spelling, since you can not comprehend what lays between the fine letters, let alone conceive the truth, and distill knowledge from the ore your inadequate imagination fails to mine.

Kristen Kish started as Lynch's mentee and went on to win Top Chef Season 10 at the ripe old age of 29 (my current age, sigh).

However, as the recipient of «the talk» at the ripe old age if 19 (no, you didn't misread that), the awkwardness was compounded by the need to gently inform my mother that, no, she does not need to explain the particulars to me.

I've always done it — since I made my first cake at the ripe old age of seven.

Chris joined the business at the ripe old age of 12, when he «put up bananas and more bananas» that first summer on the job.

I love that your son discovered chia at the ripe old age of 11!

He suffered from gout, leg ulcers, diabetes, and weighed about 400 lbs when he died at the ripe old age of 55.

Scoring so many at a time when Spurs were frequently left languishing in the middle of, or at the bottom of the table, he was plucked by Sir Alex Ferguson at the ripe old age of 31 as a replacement for Eric Cantona.

An under - appreciated great at his peak, Juan Roman Riquelme is still firing in free - kicks and playing quality long - balls for Argentine side Argentinos Juniors at the ripe old age of 36.

Look, is it reasonable to expect Wenger after 20 years in charge and at the ripe old age of 67 to have his finger on the pulls of football the way his young competitors do?

Willingly or death at a ripe old age.

He now has become quite confused at the ripe old age of 67.

It was certainly good for Francis in the end at the ripe old age of 23, as he is now an integral part of the Arsenal team, but which of our twelve players currently out on loan do you think is most likely to come back as a first team player?

Xhaka never impressed in bundesliga but was in their team of the year and also captained his club at the ripe old age of 22 similarly ozil was one of the best players in the world when he was in real but here he is being ridiculed match after match i won't be surprised when people start to criticize kolasinac after a few matches Over the last few years Wenger has developed the ability to turn quality players into crap aka arshavin, ozil etc

After loan spells with Southend United and Stoke City, plus a spell with Torquay United, he finally retired before making a comeback for Bradford City at the ripe old age of 42 in the Premiership!

Gigi Buffon has won the Italian footballer of the year at the ripe old age of 38.

At the ripe old age of 35, Kaka is still performing at a high level.

We had learnt earlier in the day that Sol had finally decided to leave us for the heady heights of Newcastle and I'm sure all of us wish him well and even at the ripe old age of 36, I feel it would have been beneficial to have him still in our squad.

in my life since I was sixteen so she met all my boyfriends, was right there when Edie was born and then passed away at the ripe old age of twenty.

When I started taking Sweetness to daycare two days a week last January, she'd pretty much decided she was done with naps at the ripe old age of 2 years and three months.

In fact, I'm not proud to admit we bought her a training potty for Christmas at the ripe old age of 18 months.

At the ripe old age of 30, I discovered that I was actually lactose intolerant.

Babies here embark on their first culinary adventure at the ripe old age of four days old.

You, at the ripe old age of six months, are what some would call a «boob snob.»

I was born in Salt Lake City, UT then moved to Idaho Falls, ID at the ripe old age of 2.

Silver, by comparison, is a spring chicken at the ripe old age of 66.

The film ends when Andreotti appears in front of the judicial investigation that ended his career at the top, but in real life he is still a senator at the ripe old age of 90.

The new King's father, the former Prince William, has just stepped down at the ripe old age of 91, having served for about 40 years.

Both Mayersohn and Simanowitz insisted her retirement at the ripe old age of 86 was not timed to help pave the way for his election.

When tested at the ripe old age of 24 months, rats that had given birth earlier in life performed better on tests of learning and memory than rats that had not given birth.

At the ripe old age of 3, my older daughter has begun flirting with falsehoods.

The following year she was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and at the ripe old age of 38 she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Jeanne Calment outlived her daughter and grandson by decades, finally succumbing to natural causes at the ripe old age of 122.

The inexorable march of geological time erodes mountains away (if we came back in 100 million years, the Alps would be gone, Bell said) and the Gamburtsevs, at the ripe old age of 900 million to a billion years old, should have been worn down eons ago.

He was an alcoholic for his entire life, and he dies at the ripe old age of 83 from a brain tumor....

Pete was pretty shaken up by his condition... peri-diabetic, facing dialysis (his doctor wanted to start dialysis IMMEDIATELY) and all at the ripe old age of 30.

So all in all, I am a cloth diaper convert at the ripe old age of fifteen.

I personally know an old woman that many years ago, she had recently got a clean bill of health from her doctor at the ripe old age of 94.

In the United States a heel stick test (using a needle prick on the baby's heel for a small blood sample) is done at the ripe old age of 3 days old to test for Phenylketonuria (PKU) and other disorders.

I was a competitive figure skater for 10 years, but after retiring at the ripe old age of 17 (that is basically dinosaur - age in that sport, mind you), I decided to explore new paths.

My Mom passed away almost 3 years ago at the ripe old age of 93.

My son, Davis, at the ripe old age of six, has become a big time lover of music.

Hardin's age is up for debate (she's either 15 or 16), and Lambert tips the scales at the ripe old age of 16.

Yep, totally caved to peer pressure at the ripe old age of twenty - nine.

(at the ripe old age of 55)