Age Quotes

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that.

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.

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

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

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

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

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.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

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.

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

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

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.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

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

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

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.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

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

[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 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.

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

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

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.

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

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

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

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

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?

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.