Age 52 Quotes

#1. Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. - Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)

Jeanette Lynes

#2. I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Spalding Gray

#3. Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

John Ruskin

#4. But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

Aimee Bender

#5. The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Ronald Reagan

#6. You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

Cheryl Tiegs

#7. Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

Rick Yancey

#8. I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

Georges Rouault

#9. I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth, I cannot vote.

Desmond Tutu

#10. Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

Jill Telford

#11. Sometimes it feels like it's show after show after show - like it's 'Groundhog Day,' and you feel like you're lost in the system.

Chet Faker

#12. Unhappiness cannot but draw tighter the bonds which hold us fast to one another, General Dumas had written to Marie-Louise as he made his way home.

Tom Reiss

#13. What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

James Joyce

#14. I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

#15. Visits always give pleasure
if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Proverb

#16. and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),

Romano Guardini

#17. Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#18. My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Richard E. Grant

#19. I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.

James Kaplan

#20. Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Frederic Morton

#21. Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#22. I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.

Michael Wilbon