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1->''"You know... I ''loved'' being you. Back when I first started, at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young... and then I was you! And it was all dashing about, playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted..."''
2-->-- '''The Tenth Doctor''' to the '''Fifth''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]"
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4->'''Brian:''' What sort of man doesn't carry a trowel? Put it on your Christmas list!\
5'''Rory:''' Dad, I'm ''thirty-one''. I don't have a Christmas list anymore.\
6'''The Doctor:''' ''[from a distance]'' I DO!
7-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]"
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9->''"Brother, you may have had a life'''time''', but you haven't had a '''life''' since the day you put on that cloak. Life is about growing -- growing older, growing wiser, growing closer to your loved ones. But you, you're frozen in time. You're the same angry kid who took that artifact off your master's corpse."''
10-->-- '''Right-Eye''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick: [[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]''
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12->''Oh [[VampireMonarch Marceline]], why are you so mean?\
13I'm not mean, I'm a thousand years old/And I just lost track of my moral code."''
14-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', "Evicted"
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16->'''Connie:''' So maybe I'm NOT Steven! Maybe he's ''really great'' at helping people work out these arguments! Maybe he's [[WiseBeyondTheirYears really patient and caring]], even though it must be hard for him having to be the ''[[ChildrenRaiseYou adult]]'' for a bunch of SUPERPOWERED ''CHILDREN!''\
17'''Lapis Lazuli:''' We're both thousands of years older than you...\
18'''Connie:''' THEN ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse ACT LIKE IT]]''!
19-->--- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E15TheNewCrystalGems The New Crystal Gems]]"
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21->'''Garovel:''' And you ''are'' my little sister, aren't you?\
22'''Chergoa:''' Yeah, by like one year! One out of... how old are we again?\
23'''Garovel:''' Three thousand something, I think.\
24'''Chergoa:''' See? You don't even know.\
25'''Garovel:''' Don't need to. Even if you were infinity years old, I'd still be infinity plus one.
26-->-- ''Literature/TheZombieKnight''
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28->''"I thought I was the sophisticated one. I was looking down on Lana for trading in her dignity. But she... all the others have found something to do with themselves. Something worth doing. All I do is go out clubbing, then come back home to read... I can't even call them the classics. I know better. They're just...centuries old pop fiction."''
29-->-- '''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ophelia]]''', ''Literature/{{Unique}}''
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31->''"You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You're right. I'm older. You've lived longer than me, but I'm older than you. And better 'n' you. And madam, ''that ain't hard''."''
32-->-- '''Granny Weatherwax''' to the Queen of Fairyland, ''Literature/LordsAndLadies''
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34->'''Chandra:''' Liliana, you're two centuries older than me. [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Exactly which of us is supposed to be the responsible one?]]\
35'''Liliana:''' Let me tell you a secret. [[TheUnfettered There doesn't have to]] ''[[TheUnfettered be]]'' [[TheUnfettered a responsible one]].
36-->-- ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/torch-defiance-2016-09-07 "Torch of Defiance"]]
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38->She's ancient and timeless. I don't know how old she is, but I think [[TimeAbyss she might have been born at the time the world was made]].\
39She's also dumb as a sack of rocks.\
40"Hi, Starbreeze."\
41"You're different," Starbreeze chirped. Then she brightened. "Pretty cloak!"
42-->-- ''[[Literature/AlexVerus Fated]]''
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44->''"I'm not even ready to settle down with a cult yet! I'm only, like, two hundred years old! I'm barely legal!"''
45-->-- '''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2662 SCP-2662]]''', ''Website/SCPFoundation''
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47->''You change constantly, as is your nature. And you change hardly at all, because your deaths are so long postponed. You '''know''' that you are endowed with souls. You rarely grasp the doubts and sorrows that brevity and uncertainty grant the '''rest''' of us. You can be glacially slow, because you live with an abundance of time. Yet you can be impetuous and careless, because error and consequence seem transitory. You expect to '''outlive''' them. When you imagine the far future, you imagine your individual selves in it. You '''know''' you will be there. And some of you think that gives you '''ownership''' over it.''
48-->-- '''Pra'tyne''' to Autobot Hound, ''[[ComicBook/Transformers2019 Transformers: Escape #1]]''
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50->'''Allison:''' You have a strong sense of... ''Whimsy''.\
51'''Gog-Agog:''' When you're a billion-year old clown you ''need'' a sense of whimsy.
52-->-- ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''

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