Age Quotes

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last four years.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

One age is like another for the soul.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.

No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

Time is of the essence, The crowd and players Are the same age always, But the man in the stand, Is older every season.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

I played my age. Not bad.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.