Age Quotes

I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

They say eyes clear with age.

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.

I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else.

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

The old men know when an old man dies.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.