Age Quotes

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

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.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and I can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That's it.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Old age is not for sissies.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

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

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.