Age Quotes

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

To me, I'm still a 24-year-old kid who just happens to have a better paying job than other kids my age.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.