We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Age Quotes from Paul Craig Roberts, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, Tom Hanks, Michael Caine. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it’s important how clothing looks, but it’s equally important how it feels on your skin.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn’t bother me.
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.
Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
My inspiration was my mom. She’s a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
I think the cruise industry has come of age. And older people my age are attracted to the cruise ship industry. And they are booming right now, and all over the world they are booming. And I think they’re for the golden oldies, and there are more and more of them around.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
I had the chance to play with Alan Shearer to join the list of class players I’d played with at a young age at Leeds – the Vidukas, Smiths, Kewells, and Woodgates.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Nothing will see us through the age we’re entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don’t have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
I believe there’s no reason why we couldn’t be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field.
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound… it’s like musical landfill.
Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
It’s really hard coming of age in today’s society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you’re 16 years old. Most kids don’t know what they want to do. How could they? They haven’t lived in the real world yet.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
When I began running at the age of 10, I didn’t have the diet athletes need. It was just rice and vegetables. Every day.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
We’re not in an information age anymore. We’re in the information management age.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea – O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in ‘Vogue’ magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read ‘The New York Times.’ I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
Age doesn’t mean anything. Age doesn’t mean I can’t work as hard. Age doesn’t mean I can’t do as well as everyone else. It’s just a factor. It’s just there.
Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, ‘Yeah, I know what you mean,’ and stare at their mobiles.
Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it – in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
I’ve been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it’s difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone’s eyes are on you, it’s difficult.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
I believe that investing in our children’s development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
I think love can happen at any age… it has no age.
I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that’s what I wanted to do.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one’s body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
How young can you die of old age?
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
I knew from an early age that people didn’t see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn’t quite see that.
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‘I’m a Christian.’ I always think, ‘Already? You’ve already got it?’ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can’t really control life – so you’d better live it while it’s here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they’re just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don’t have the looks any more, then it’s over.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult’s perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story – that part of a young person’s life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it’s like to be twelve years old.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Old age is a woman’s hell.
Future’s like an older brother to me, and Thug’s more like a brother my age.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
When you’re put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you’re able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that’s a beautiful thing.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
I’d say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I’d become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.
My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature’s way of tattooing. It’s natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
A grownup is a child with layers on.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet.
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Hope is not a matter of age.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
You should never reveal your true age.
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I don’t want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I’m not interested.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.
Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last ‘generalist’ in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can’t.
Cancer – there’s no prejudice. There’s no age limit. It can happen to anybody.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
I grew up going to a school where there weren’t a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young age, has sensitized me to race.
I hate the idea that you shouldn’t wear something just because you’re a certain age.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age – less than a year old – and grew up and was educated in the West.
Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of life alter so rapidly, that a few years now suffice to change completely the face of usages which, at their inception, bade fair to outlive the age – so enthusiastically were they welcomed by the public.
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I’d be pretty happy about that.
If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn’t have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.’
I don’t care about age very much.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: ‘Nawal, why don’t you get a facelift?’ I tell them, ‘I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?’
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
It wasn’t until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to… It’s a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.
In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing… chanting hymns containing the word ‘Hosanna.’
In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
I’ve been dancing since the age of two. I don’t really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn’t.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
I was born in Niagara Falls. The high school I went to had 500 kids and the school didn’t have a lot of money. The town itself was whatever. It was a good place to grow up. It was a blessing that I grew up there, because I got to find myself at a young age.
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we’re faced with an information age.
I like films and I have been watching films from a young age. So, making films happened to be a natural progression.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
To be told that one can be dependent on one’s parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
We may think we live in a digital age. But there are some things technology will never replace.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, Why? Why do that?
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We’re all going way beyond our expiration date.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn’t super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
Remember the phrase – ‘Act your age, not your shoe size?’ That didn’t apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.
I strive for perfection, but I’m not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
I don’t know how, at an age when you’re trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.
You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the ‘idiot voters’ because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
You reach a certain age, and you realize, ‘Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don’t leave me out – I don’t want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.’
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don’t die of old age.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
If youth knew; if age could.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
No lie ever reaches old age.
I don’t think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
I’m not one of those New Age types that believe ‘it’s all meant to be’ and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don’t have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
I’ve seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way, and there was no way she could undergo surgery at her age. Even though I was concerned for her, I didn’t know at that time what she had to go through.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he’d been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Never guess a woman’s age. Never guess a woman’s weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she’s due.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don’t think there’s any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry – if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it’s a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn’t move, and I was forced to think a lot.
In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad’s a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
I don’t think you should celebrate age.
I began by listening to my mother’s collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn’t make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
There’s a vintage which comes with age and experience.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
‘General Hospital’ was so massive in the 80s and that’s when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there’s still a lot of ‘Frisco.’
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age.
At a young age I thought, ‘Wow, that fiddle thing, that’s pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums… ‘ They were Indian drums. And I was saying, ‘But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.’
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
I don’t mind being older. I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot. It’s the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it’s a less valuable commodity?
At the age of 31, I realized, ‘Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.’
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
I’m much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I’ll be second fiddle. Fine. I’m happy to do it.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Being seventy is not a sin.
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there’s some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
People say women shouldn’t have long hair over a certain age, but I’ve never done what everyone says.
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Painting was always something I thought I’d do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away suddenly at the age of 50 and it made me realise that if I put off doing stuff until I retire, I might not ever get there.
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces.
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn’t interacted with many people my age, and I didn’t really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
After my diagnosis at age 22 with leukemia, the second piece of news I learned was that I would likely be infertile as a result of chemotherapy. It was a one-two punch that was my first indication that issues of cancer and sexual health are inextricably tied.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world’s best feeling, although I’m totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
At my age flowers scare me.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.
You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
I started studying piano at the age of four.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a ‘little black frock’ is essential to a woman’s wardrobe.
As for whether I am a ‘new age guru’, I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
I want everyone to know that they can accomplish anything they want at any age if they just be themselves. I want to encourage millions to chase their dreams and to never change. Everyone should also know how to throw a good right hook!
If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
Adults are obsolete children.
From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels.
As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.
Skin care is massively important to me. My mom instilled that into my brain from a pretty young age.
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they’ve got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we’re going to bomb them into the stone age.
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
My feet are like something from another age – prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I would automatically groove to it.
I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon… I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.
I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I’ve probably known since then that I want to be a professional actor.
We live in an age of innovation, where digital technology is providing solutions to problems before we’ve even realised we needed them. We see it every day as we find new ways to travel, eat and shop.
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it’s on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues – probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life – even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
We don’t have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.
I’m the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt – how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.
When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone’s life.
We will not continue to be in the post-’79 era. That age is over.
Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
A good song is a good song whatever your age.
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn’t know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.
During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs – you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through – but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
Age considers; youth ventures.
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
The fact that I’ve lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age… it’s natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was ‘time pass.’ Would time not have passed if he hadn’t watched the film?
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety – they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it’s a ‘super’ man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
I’ve loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother’s a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
I remember being in college knowing I didn’t want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.
When I was 16, I got ‘Jamon, Jamon.’ Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
I would love a family. I’m at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
I don’t want to go into a marriage just because of my age – too many people make that mistake. But of course I’d like to be married one day – I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn’t matter; age, colour, c’mon!
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the ’90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it’s normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, ‘I want to stay at home a little bit more,’ but it’s only the moment.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I’m very scared. I don’t want to be old. I’ve always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Now is the age of anxiety.
We can’t avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
I’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after – I have arthritis – and money is a factor.
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That’s because we become what we think.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
At an early age I was listening to BB King, what have you. Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Mcgriff, you dig? With the obvious Marvin Gayes and the Motown records.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
For a true artist, life is a real academy. I am always both a student and a teacher. I have been teaching art to children since the age of eight. Now I am a co-founder of Akiane Arts School at Foreli Academy, where we are now enrolling students.
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
Old age is no place for sissies.
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
I’m just sick of the way things are. We’re in an age in which we can’t live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy… What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It’s something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age – when you are going through something like that – the genre is so meaningful.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
People in love don’t see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It’s about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don’t think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix… I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
Minds ripen at very different ages.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
I embrace old age. Look, I’m never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I’ve learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I’m very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
I have to have my sunscreen. It’s so important for wrinkle reduction but also to protect you from the sun. Whatever skin type one might have, whatever age they’re at, I think sunscreen is key.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Old age is a shipwreck.
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.
I feel like I’ve reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I’ve been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I’ve been, and beyond it.
I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.
I’m just happy that Jesus Christ, um, did not let me lose my teeth when I was 20 years old. ‘Cause I was wondering, like, what if you kept your baby teeth until the age of 18 or 20, and then you lose ’em? That would look pretty bad.
To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I’ve never emerged.
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
I’m not afraid of aging.
My father taught me poker at a very young age and I’ve been playing for money since I was 14 years old.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn’t trade it for anything!
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like ‘An American Werewolf in London’ in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age – its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Youth is wasted on the young.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it’s related primarily to the obesity problem.
My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left!
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, ‘Ooh, she’s so skinny and she’s wearing high heels.’ But I just wore what I like, and I didn’t care about people’s opinions, the same as I don’t care now.
I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Some age, others mature.
