Quotes About Age

K?das ir j?su domas par dz?vi? [Ludvigs jaut? z?rciniekam Vilkem] - No r?ta cit?das nek? vakar?, ziem? cit?das nek? vasar?, pirms ?šanas cit?das nek? p?c tam un jaun?b? droši vien cit?das nek? vecum?.

What has Kantorek written to you?" Müller asks him. He laughs. "We are the Iron Youth." We all three smile bitterly, Kropp rails: he is glad that he can speak. Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.

And yes, that's it, that is what they think, those hundred thousand Kantoreks. Young men of iron. Young? None of us is more than twenty. But young? Young men? That was a long time ago. We are old now.

Parce qu'il est plus facile de se cacher derrière une vie de quarante ans que derrière une de vingt.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Twenty-five? Shawn squawked, horrified. Good Lord, he's a fetus!

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. —LEO TOLSTOI

never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated

The Age Demand The age demanded that we sing And cut away our tongue. The age demanded that we flow And hammered in the bung. The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Good night then. I will wake you in the morning." "You're my alarm clock," the boy said. "Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?" "I don't know," the boy said. "All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard." "I can remember it," the old man said. "I'll waken you in time.

Todo en él era viejo excepto sus ojos.

Azt hiszem – gondolta –, hetven órában csakúgy elfér az egész élet, mint hetven évben; de csak ha az ember már kinÅ'tt a gyerekkorból, s ha már s hetven óra kezdetét is gazdag élet elÅ'zte meg.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as in seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.