Age Quotes
As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.
You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.
Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.
It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.
Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs
What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.
I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.
I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.
At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.
We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.
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.
He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.
In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.
I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.
It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?
I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.
I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.
I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age. She hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.