Age Quotes

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.