Age Quotes

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

I’ve reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

I don't know anyone my age.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

In the feeding of hospital patients, more attention should be given to providing tasty and attractive meals, and less to the nutritive quality of the food.

Have confidence in America's food industry, it deserves it.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

The way people age is not the way people age ... everyone is draining everyone!

Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.

The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.