Age Quotes

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business

I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

You know you're old when the president is younger than you.

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain] is so good that I've got high hopes.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

I don't know, think for that relationship in particular age doesn't really come into play.

I actually feel very proud of my age.

I've never lied about my age.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!