When You Reach A Certain Age Quotes

#1. It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Arthur Miller

#2. When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

Jesse Ventura

#3. Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Robert Benton

#4. When you reach a certain age you don't care about the future: it is success enough to be alive: every morning you wake with triumph. (p. 91)

Graham Greene

#5. When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

Christopher Bollen

#7. You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

Habeeb Akande

#8. We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age and are no longer earning an income, they have a safety net through which they are not going to fall.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#9. You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'

Ted Danson

#10. Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

Marianne Williamson

#11. After you reach a certain age, they think you're over. Well, I will never be over. I'll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I've done that in my past, and I'd do it again.

Dolly Parton

#12. Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

Madonna Ciccone

#13. I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

Sarah Ruhl

#14. As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Joanna Lumley

#15. You reach a certain age
sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six
and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

Matt Haig

#16. Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

Jack LaLanne

#17. There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ...

Clement Freud

#18. You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

Daniel Handler

#19. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.

Robert Thurman

#20. In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

Jonathan Swift