Age Quotes

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

All guys are jerks but they get hotter with age and we learn to be more tolerant.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Today is much more an age of greed

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.