Quotes About Age

You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.

When you're older," said the Professor, "you'll know that you can't put Mountains together again so easily!

I'm older than you, and must know better." And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

A lot of people won't listen to old men. A lot of people are stupid.

When my love comes back from the ladies' room, will I be too old to care?

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London is full of women of the highest society who have remained thirty-five for years.

Wrinkles? They just tell the story of your life

Mommy?" I plead. "Please?" "No," she pouts. "I'm nine!" "Please," I say and start to sob, my chest heaving its burden up and down. "I'm nine!" "Please be thirty-four!

even if the older mind lives by remembering, the young mind lives by forgetting.

From Luxembourg, for instance, came a seventy-nine-year-old man with two grandsons, one fourteen, the other fifteen. They were now sharing the same luck, the same hardships, the same worries.

A parent's approval always mattered, regardless of age—

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.