Age Quotes

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.