Age Quotes

To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.

When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.

She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.

I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.

He is at an age that whenever a pretty girl smiles at him he immediately looks down to see what is unzipped.

Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.

When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity she replied "Red meat and gin."

Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

There are three ages of man: youth middle age and "Gee you look good."

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.

I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.

If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny but are immature and tasteless that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.

I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

You're only young once but you can always be immature.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was, ” he cringed as he beat himself up inside.

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.

I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.