Age Quotes

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.

For love is sufficient unto love.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.