Quotes About Age

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

She'd thought him very old. He was young though, only in his forties. How was it possible he felt confident, in helping others, to attempt so much? Was it because the world was in such bad shape, the young must activate the ancient within themselves and the older must activate youth? On a spiritual level was there any difference?

We must acknowledge and reclaim our true size. Dignity is important. Self-respect. We cannot lead by pretending to be powerless. We're not. Age is power. Or it can be if it isn't distracted by shopping and cooking and trying to look nineteen.

34 coming up — I suddenly felt old — sitting with Walter & Raquel in Chinese Restaurant — they kissed — I alone — age of Burroughs when we first met.

Mine was the Benjamin Button of careers; age and status had both gone backward. It definitely took some getting used to.

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to it's own current.

I often wonder if it's the curse of old age, to feel young in your heart while your body betrays you.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

From childhood to youth is eternity, from youth to manhood, a season. Age comes in a night and is incredible.

But then, you reach a certain age, everything hurts.

Bah. What does it matter now? There are no certainties let in the world. That was the age of great men, doing what was right." He frowned down at the broken rubble choking the floor of the colossal room. "This is the age of little men, doing what they must. Little men, with little dreams, walking in giant footsteps.

The dead save me from the fucking young.' 'No getting away from 'em, sadly,' muttered Clover. 'The older you get, the more of 'em there are.

You aren't old until age becomes your excuse. If you continue to remind yourself of your age and use it as a crutch, no matter what that number is, you'll come to believe that high achievement is impossible. That

Getting old is no way to stop being young.

At first glance Bing knew that although this man might have passed for forty or so, he was much older than that. His eyes had the soft, faded look of sea glass; they were old eyes, unfathomably old. He had a long, harrowed face, wise and kindly, although he had an overbite and his teeth were a little crooked. It was the sort of face, Bing supposed, that some people would describe as ferretlike, but in profile it also would've looked just fine on currency.

A maioria vinha se preparando para missões clandestinas pós-apocalípticas desde que tinha idade suficiente para segurar um controle de Xbox.

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left.

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

for i am old. so very old. older than she got to be. and I'm not sure a person ought to live to be too old. for when you can´t live life, you´re just burning life, sucking air and making turds.

For when you can't live life, you're just burning life, sucking air and making turds. Perhaps it's not age, but health that matters. Live long and healthy, it doesn't matter. But live long and unhealthy, it's a living hell. And here I lie. Not doing well at all. Only the past seems to matter now; only it seems to be alive; only it can support my soul.

Your age doesn't matter," said The Big Guy, which was spoken like someone who had never fucked an old lady. I am not suggesting that I have....Oh hell. A few times, at fundraisers for charities back in the States.

The face was bulbous and pink and hairless, utterly unremarkable, a Sunday school teacher's face, and that was the most unsettling part of it. Although he was probably my dad's age or older, the slack, anonymous complexion and dead eyes made it impossible to exactly pinpoint his age. He could have been a wax statue, a young actor made up to look old, or an amateurishly embalmed corpse.

A young man's distractions are far more potent than an old man's memories,'he told me. He said that in the end memory is a cheat and a lie and no substitute for what he called the real stuff, the stuff of life.

The quoted are equated with being the leaders of an age, as if there sits not in silence an even wiser sage.