Top 100 Quotes About Age
#1. Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.
Charles Stross
#2. I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.
Guy Wilson
#3. When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
Jane Fonda
#4. Oh, I thought that this day and age you maybe would be known as bovine custodial officers.
Tom Robbins
#5. When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame De Stael
#6. What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
Philippe Petit
#7. But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).
Robert E. Barron
#8. It would be interesting to remember the dreams I had here, at the Del Mar, more than ten years ago. I probably dreamed about girls and punishment, the way all boys that age do.
Roberto Bolano
#9. Old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
M.F.K. Fisher
#10. Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
Vera Nazarian
#11. Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read
Kami Garcia
#12. In this age of one-night stands, virtual relationships and text sex, a wedding was a modern miracle.
Eleanor Prescott
#13. When my husband was a child in Sweden, he only had two television stations and by the age of six (he claims), he walked half a mile to school by himself in the snow.
Heather Jonasson
#14. Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
George Steiner
#15. Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
Finley Peter Dunne
#16. Youth is the age of extremes: "if the young commit a fault it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration." The great difficulty of youth (and of many of youth's elders) is to get out of one extreme without falling into its opposite.
Will Durant
#17. My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...
Osamu Tezuka
#18. I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age.
Gillian Flynn
#19. Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.
Cate Blanchett
#20. Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Paul Auster
#21. It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age ... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ...
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#22. Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson
#23. Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
John Wagner
#24. For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent human natural rights of liberty and translate them into an age of new technolog
Jeffrey Rosen
#25. I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
George Burns
#28. I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.
Bill Viola
#29. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order ...
Augustus
#30. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...
Henry Giroux
#31. Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben Jonson
#32. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
#33. Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
Wendy Davis
#34. Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.
Ray Kurzweil
#35. The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
Jean Paul
#36. Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
Sela Ward
#37. To me, I'm still a 24-year-old kid who just happens to have a better paying job than other kids my age.
Joey Harrington
#38. Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts the planet farther down a path we don't want to head down
Russell Gold
#39. Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
Abbi Glines
#40. Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three ...
Pandora Poikilos
#41. Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.
Scott Turow
#42. While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.
Newton Lee
#43. People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
Lesley Nicol
#44. When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.
Horace Walpole
#45. Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
David Crane
#46. For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
Daniel Boulud
#47. The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.
Linda Ronstadt
#49. There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
Iman
#50. Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?
Michel De Montaigne
#51. The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources ... The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
David Deming
#52. If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind
J.P. Moreland
#53. But one thing is certain, he is the master criminal of this age. He controls a marvellous organization. Most of the Peace propaganda during the war was originated and financed by him.
Agatha Christie
#54. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.
J.K. Rowling
#55. Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert
#56. I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#57. It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.
Paul Weller
#58. A portable CD player played some kind of new age stuff that sounded like aborigine instruments being used to help a woman imitate Enya. At any rate, there was definitely a bull-roarer and a didgeridoo in there somewhere.
Elliott James
#59. Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
Sheri S. Tepper
#60. You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.
Cristina Saralegui
#61. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#62. To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
George Orwell
#63. Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator)
Leonard Holton
#64. Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
Edward Young
#65. Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
Tony Robbins
#66. Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.
Jennifer Crusie
#67. Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
C.S. Lewis
#68. My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.
Elias James Corey
#69. Women do that as they age, they lighten, become air, their souls ephemeral with memory and experience. Men become more ponderous with the passing of the years, heavy with regret.
Robert Goolrick
#70. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
Scott Adams
#71. I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.
John Shelby Spong
#72. The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Tom Hanks
#73. I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.
Andrew Loog Oldham
#74. It is not age but experience that brings wisdom.
Jeffrey Fry
#75. When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
Bruce Hornsby
#76. If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
Sascha Radetsky
#77. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills
#78. I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.
Billy Burke
#79. I've battled psoriasis; I've had an autoimmune disease since I was two. So I'm very vigilant about taking care of myself and eating right and what I put in my body. It's something that I had to be aware of since a young age. So health is a big deal.
LeAnn Rimes
#80. We sometimes get lost in a bubble ... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.
Ray Winstone
#81. Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
Franz Grillparzer
#82. One hour with Mother is more than
Without her, an age.
Lokendra Singh
#83. The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score ... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.
Michael Owen
#84. The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#85. I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.
Jeff Lindsay
#86. The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
Michael Bloomberg
#89. One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
Mitch Albom
#90. The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.
Lord Chesterfield
#91. Children of the future age
Reading this indignant page
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
William Blake
#92. Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
Herbie Hancock
#93. The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
Rollo May
#94. He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever man of the world of established position can hardly help taking himself rather seriously.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'
Anthony Marra
#96. We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
Eskinder Nega
#97. There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards the universal. The struggle of the individual against the universal may be seen both in the world war and in modern art.
Theo Van Doesburg
#98. [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
Orson Scott Card
#99. His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!
Charles Dickens
#100. Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore De Balzac
