Age Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.]

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

speed is the curse of the age.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.