Quotes About Age

the children of the hour of darkness were born, I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.

Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.)

Among geniuses intelligence loses its currency; they vie with each other at cooking or sex. So with immortals. When age becomes a constant, it becomes irrelevant.

He talked about wanting to take on the destructive, mind-numbing junk culture of his time just as Cervantes had gone to war with the junk culture of his own age.

He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.

Fifteen years old! Okay, okay. In our part of the world that's not so young.

Gazing for the first time upon this amphibian terrain, this bog of nightmare, I should have felt excited; but the heat and recent events were weighing me down; my upper lip was still childishly wet with nose-goo, but I felt oppressed by a feeling of having moved directly from an overlong and dribbling childhood into a premature (though still leaky) old age.

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.

As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.