Age Quotes

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

Old age ain't for sissies

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me

I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age...

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Age is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.