Quotes About Age

Ours is a psychological age rather than an institutional one. What used to be done for us by institutional structures and through ritual process, we now have to do inside ourselves, for ourselves. Ours is a culture of the individual rather than the collective.

upon that change he passes over to the ranks of the Old Salts and ceases to be a Boot forever. Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.

Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.

much flak if I made you a general at your age.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

We are old-timers,each of us holds a locked razor.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. — William Butler Yeats

regarding your willingness to learn, even at your age. I even remind you of one of my favorite statements, a bit of wisdom from Henry Ford, a man whom many would say is among history's greatest inventors: "Anyone who keeps learning stays young." How's that for a sweet promise?

You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old.

cuando la mayoría de la gente se da cuenta de lo que realmente quiere y de cómo obtenerlo, suele ser demasiado tarde. Los jóvenes no saben, los viejos no pueden.

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.

Girls walk into a room. The boys sit up. Women in their late forties walk into a room. Men in their fifties sit up, straighten their backs, pull down the fronts of their hoodies. It made me want to cry. I felt I was going right back into the life I'd missed.

This is not to say that the Muslims were more brutal or less tolerant than were Christians or Jews, for it was a brutal and intolerant age. It is to say that efforts to portray Muslims as enlightened supporters of multiculturalism are at best ignorant.

By the time you've learned it all, by the time you're really proficient, you're almost too old to go on catching.

Big-league ball on the west coast of Florida is a spring sport played by the young for the divertissement of the elderly—a sun-warmed, sleepy exhibition celebrating the juvenescence of the year and the senescence of the fans.

When you're young you don't realize that at every age you are always in the present, and in that sense no older;

As there is a time for everything, there is a time also for the end of anything. This is an age for the consolidation of man's gains upon this world. This is a time for the sharing of knowledge, not the crossing of blades.

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know; this is called research. Now perhaps comes the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed.