Quotes About Age

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens.

Sono solo al mondo». «Allora amerete me. Se siete giovane, sarò vostro compare. Se siete vecchio, sarò vostro figlio. Ho un padre che dovrebbe avere settant'anni, se è ancora in vita. Amavo solo lui e una fanciulla di nome Mercédès. Mio padre non mi ha dimenticato, ne sono sicuro. Ma lei, Iddio solo sa se mi pensa ancora. Amerò voi come amavo mio padre».

Hoy, caballero, tenemos otros intereses; cada edad trae consigo los suyos; y como hoy nos entendemos hablando, como en otra época nos entendíamos sin hablar, hablemos, si os parece.

Ah c'est que tu as vingt ans, toi, et que tu peux oublier le passé, j'en ai cinquante, et je suis bien forcé de m'en souvenir

young man had a steed which was the observed of all observers. It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair

old age is boastful; and it is pardonable for old men to praise themselves when others no longer do it.

In the first twenty years of life, your guide is hope, and in your last twenty years, reality.

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was concealed, was brisk and dry. His little gray eyes shone like carbuncles, and appeared, with his grinning mouth, to be the only part of his face in which life survived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony

The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.

In the present age men are not very inclined to die in defence of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

When you are young you are looking forward and when you are old you are looking back.

hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet.

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.

I'm old, Franny reminded him when she noticed his bleak expression. But it's still me in here. So be careful. Vincent laughed, then offered his arm so that Franny could link her arm through his.

Now there were grown men and women who would try to look like teen-agers until

Pero esperaba con paciencia. Ya no creía en el poder de la palabra. Nunca salvaba nada. A los setenta años había acabado creyendo únicamente en el tiempo.

We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.

But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.