Top 100 The Ages Quotes
#1. A learned man said: The learned men are the lights of the ages. Each is a light in his own time giving light to the people of his time.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#2. There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there were a lot of bad looks. But I guess you learn from your mistakes. After that, I kind of found my style and what I like to wear.
Henrik Lundqvist
#3. I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then ... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
Roald Dahl
#4. Tens of thousands of God's saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#5. In 1989, roughly one in fifty East Germans between the ages of eighteen and eighty worked for the Stasi in some capacity.
Julia Angwin
#6. Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.
Kenneth Rexroth
#8. Wisdom of the Ages: Another Bush in the White House-Yep they keep forgetting to grab the TV and silverware.
Matthew D. Heines
#9. The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.
Erwin McManus
#10. Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.
Sanford I. Weill
#11. What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the ages. And what mysteries are solved and revealed
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. A love of the ages.
That's what he had called it. Rhi had been too wrapped up in the desire and him to fully comprehend everything. It wasn't until he turned his back on her that it hit her.
Donna Grant
#13. From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
Elias James Corey
#14. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. The ages between birth and age 5 are
the foundation upon which successful
lives are built.
Laura Bush
#16. Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.
Charles Carleton Coffin
#17. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
Henry David Thoreau
#19. I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.
Anderson Silva
#21. People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
George Weinberg
#22. Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.
David Gemmell
#24. I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.
William Gibson
#25. Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K. Shipler
#26. Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
Kate Klise
#27. Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
E. M. Forster
#28. Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Freda Adler
#29. Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages.
"Why don't we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?" he said.
And Ridcully responded with the traditional response.
"It's got to be worth a try," he said.
Terry Pratchett
#30. I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
Margaret Atwood
#31. From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done ... but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.
Theodore Roosevelt
#32. In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.
Shantideva
#33. People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
Hayao Miyazaki
#34. Did anybody say anything about being flawless? Perfection is
an absolutely different word, magnificently left hanging for the human being's kind benefit throughout the ages!
J.D. Salinger
#35. We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#36. Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.
Oswald Mosley
#37. Wisdom of the Ages: "Uppity" How Obama's new aggressive style is described below the Mason-Dixon line.
Matthew D. Heines
#38. Ignorance of the ages leaves me all but lifeless.
Not alone has it burnt sacred religious works,
but works of literature, art, philosophy, poetry,
astronomy, n' medicine, but to name a few.
Richard Mc Sweeney
#39. If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and ... try freedom.
Murray Rothbard
#40. 7but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
Anonymous
#41. Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.
Matthew D. Heines
#42. All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.
Gautama Buddha
#43. I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.
Frank O'Hara
#44. It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.
John Cassian
#45. You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd
#46. The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.
Kate Winslet
#47. I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him, there will be no unfulfilled longings or disappointments. He will welcome me into His mansion, answer my questions, and teach me the wisdom of the ages.
Billy Graham
#48. If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
Anne Lamott
#49. Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#50. There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.
Howard Zinn
#51. Misunderstanding of the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong.
Anne Frank
#53. Time is a river ... and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.
Dan Brown
#54. Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.
Theodore Roosevelt
#55. Oh, and it's also Reaming Day, the day where the kids between the ages of twelve to eighteen are chosen to participate in the Hunger But Mainly DeathGames, which, as you might expect from the name, is a tournament in which kidsfight to the death, and occasionally experience hunger.
William Maxwell
#56. Most adults have a vocabulary of around 60,000 words, meaning that children must learn 10 to 20 words a day between the ages of eight months and 18 years. And yet the most frequent 100 words account for 60% of all conversations. The most common 4000 words account for 98% of conversation.
David Miller
#57. Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.
Tyne Daly
#58. Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
Walter Mosley
#59. It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation.
Markus Zusak
#60. The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
Francis Parker Yockey
#61. Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself.
Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages.
Dharlene Marie Fahl
#62. In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
George Eliot
#63. Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which these facts are interpreted have not changed, for common sense remains essentially the same throughout the ages.
Fulton J. Sheen
#64. Here is a quick and generally reliable rule to follow. If people have always said it, it is probably true; it is the distilled wisdom of the ages. If people have not always said it, but everybody is saying it now, it is probably a lie; it is the concentrated madness of the moment. People
Anthony M. Esolen
#65. Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
Victor Hugo
#66. I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.
May Kendall
#67. There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a job in a bookshop.
Hari Kunzru
#68. Finished their compulsory training under universal service and were between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-four were classed as reserves. Upon mobilization the youngest classes filled out the regular army units to war strength; the others were formed into reserve regiments,
Barbara W. Tuchman
#69. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.
Michael Josephson
#70. Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
Gary Holland
#71. 'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!'
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#72. How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
Seneca The Younger
#73. There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
Mary Shelley
#74. The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
Herodotus
#75. What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out.
Siren Waroe
#76. Every hangover feels like the worst hangover you've ever had, but this one was definitely a classic. One for the ages. He felt like all the water had been forcibly sucked out of his body, like an apricot in a dehydration chamber, and replaced with venom from an angry adder.
Lev Grossman
#77. When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.
Bud Gardner
#78. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.
Max Lucado
#79. In your world there has almost always
been hate, war, evil thoughts and actions, but through the ages, it has been like a slow growing cancer. Growing, spreading, entangling itself..."
spoken by The Guardian from The Scymarian
D.J. Jameson Smith
#80. If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.
Eleanor Clark
#81. [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
Benito Mussolini
#82. This document and scores similar to it were at the foundation of cultural, political and social change throughout the ages. Secret brotherhoods with one credo: to know, to dare, to be silent.
Art Johnson
#83. The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.
R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
#84. [N]ot only is the most marvellous event in this book collaborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages.
Herman Melville
#85. We are not building this country of ours for a day. It is to last through the ages.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
Walter Dean Myers
#87. Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
Taylor Momsen
#88. He's splashing through ancient water, water from the beginning that has cycled through all centuries, puddle-jumped by a thousand young boys through the ages and I wonder if the water Adam knew falls here.
Ann Voskamp
#89. The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Dawn Powell
#90. He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
Dorothy Parker
#91. I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Larry Hagman
#92. The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
Benjamin Graham
#93. To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is like telling someone that they need to read a history of toilets through the ages in order to pee and poop.
Muriel Barbery
#94. I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth
#95. You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was." -Anthony St. Marteen
C.J. Wrightwood
#96. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.
Arthur Wallis
#98. Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
Yann Martel
#100. How could such a powerful animal possess so generous a temperament as to carry man obediently and thoughtfully through the ages
Shania Twain
