Age 20 Quotes

#1. The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

#2. From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Gina Barreca

#3. Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Alma Gluck

#4. My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.

Art Linkletter

#5. I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Glenn Frey

#6. You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

Belinda Carlisle

#7. My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

Olivia Newton-John

#8. Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Robert Genn

#9. If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Ann Landers

#11. I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

Michael Moore

#12. At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Andrew Wyeth

#13. What on earth is happening? asked a witness to these events (Rusty Montgomery, age 20, who insisted on not remaining anonymous and also wished this paper to record the fact that he is single).

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Warren Buffett

#15. It doesn't matter if you're 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!

Steve Maraboli

#16. The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

Coco Chanel

#17. You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Linda Evans

#18. At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Jenny McCarthy

#20. But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.

David Axelrod

#21. I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.

Kim Cattrall

#22. He finally understood ... the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight - a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.

Maud Casey

#23. When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.

Amy Heckerling

#24. The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.

Ayelet Zurer

#25. I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

#26. I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.

Natalia Tena

#27. The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?

Twiggy

#28. I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

#29. When I was 5 years old, hanging out with my friends who were all older than me, like 8 or 9, I was joking around like, 'Yeah, when I'm 20 that's a perfect age to go pro.' That's what I had in my head. Then I turn pro at 13. It's all been a mystery and its all been awesome.

Ryan Sheckler

#30. I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

Sonam Kapoor

#31. Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

Twiggy

#32. I know in college, a player is playing for something every year so it is constantly competitive while in residency although you're playing with the top players in your age, you don't have many competitions other than the U-17 or U-20 World Cups.

Steve Purdy

#33. You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

Grant Cardone

#34. At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#35. I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.

Lindsay Lohan

#36. From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

Calvin Harris

#37. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

Santosh Kalwar

#38. I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.

Gerry Lindgren

#39. I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Liam Neeson

#40. I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

John Boyne

#41. For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#42. As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

Vayalar Ravi

#43. When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

Bob Odenkirk

#44. I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.

Jhonen Vasquez

#45. My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.

Tom Parker Bowles

#46. The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. It's true. So think about it carefully.

Haruki Murakami

#47. I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences.

Justine Bateman

#48. I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Dolly Parton

#49. I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.

Marie Helvin

#50. I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#51. Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)

Richie Norton

#52. Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

Yair Lapid

#53. A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Eric Hoffer

#54. I came to the age, at 20, that is hard to transfer to an adult. I had a good list of credits, but it's just hard. So I went out for parts when there were some, and I traveled a little, had some fun, and then met my husband.

Suzanne Crough

#55. There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

Ewan McGregor

#56. To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

Ian McDiarmid

#57. I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.

Sofia Vergara

#58. You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Jennifer Aniston

#59. In her 20's, a woman's breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40's, they halve it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.

Jack LaLanne

#61. Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.

Winston S. Churchill

#62. I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

Tom Felton

#63. The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Larry Elder

#64. To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

Howard Fast

#65. Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.

Shaquille O'Neal

#66. I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

Debi Mazar

#67. We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

Alice Dreger

#68. From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

Cillian Murphy

#69. At the young age of 15, Gates went into business with Paul Allen. They developed a program for monitoring Seattle's traffic patterns, called Traf-o-Data, which earned them around $20,000.

Steve Walters

#70. At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Carlos Ghosn

#71. Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

Ray Liotta

#72. You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

Imogen Poots

#73. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

William Galston

#74. The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago.

Gabriela M. Sanchez

#75. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Al Bernstein

#76. It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

Michelle Malkin

#77. Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

Chen Shui-bian

#78. I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

Alber Elbaz

#79. I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn't start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you're in a boy band, you kinda have to.

Drew Lachey

#80. I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Larry Hagman

#81. I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

Lleyton Hewitt

#82. I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.

Louise Nurding

#83. I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.

Emo Philips