Age Quotes

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

When the age is in, the wit is out

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.