Age Quotes

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

This Cruel Age has deflected me.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

I think you can go to school at any age.

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast.

Don't let your age control your life... Let your life control your age.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.