Age Quotes

The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Every age is an unknown country.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.