Age Quotes

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

I’ve elected to age gracefully.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

Every age has its beautiful moments.

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [...] It's called being grown-up.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.