Age Quotes
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.
Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.
Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
When you step out on the court, I don't think anybody thinks about age. Because if you're out on this tour it means you deserve to be here. You've got the skill. It must mean you know how to play.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
A few years ago it dawned on me that 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.
He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.
They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.
I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.
