Age Quotes

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

Life is long if it is full.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.