Age Quotes
Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't h...
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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...
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Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work lon...
Show MoreFrom an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when...
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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental...
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much bet...
Show MoreThere are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would...
Show MoreThere was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...
Show MoreOne of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!
He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.Harry: We're the same age, Draco.Draco: I wear it better.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be...
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I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than...
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You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourse...
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Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
Show MoreA glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispens...
Show MoreLives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police pre...
Show MoreOne by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glor...
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The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a ...
Show MoreMy experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unc...
Show MoreIn this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create ha...
Show MoreI am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year ...
Show MoreI'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.
The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; th...
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There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don'...
Show MoreWhen you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you...
Show MoreEveryone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into grou...
Show MoreIt looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for peop...
Show MoreUltimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or ...
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Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm...
Show MoreThe death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things...
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Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.
Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew mo...
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I wa...
Show MoreLove has no age, no limit; and no death.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small m...
Show MoreHow soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doct...
Show MoreLeon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that ...
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Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Y...
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Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but ye...
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It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. A...
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At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked...
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He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. The...
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The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey throu...
Show MoreHe had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a quest...
Show MoreI wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress...
Show MoreI decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular...
Show MoreNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the y...
Show MoreZsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but ...
Show MoreThe stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
Show Moredoubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a pro...
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One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and ...
Show MoreTechnology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else...
Show MoreI think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm go...
Show MoreWas it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your exc...
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When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you l...
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Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, ...
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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what...
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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why shoul...
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... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But ...
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great...
Show MoreI am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suff...
Show MoreWhen people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you...
Show MoreYouthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions ...
Show MoreThere were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from t...
Show MoreThe child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. ...
Show MoreAppearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...
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Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why o...
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I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.
When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't...
Show MoreThe power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answer...
Show Morewhen you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope
Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window.The great ...
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Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of t...
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You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played ...
Show MoreThe denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assist...
Show MoreWhat is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
Show MoreI think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age....
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