Quotes About Age

If you are four you are four

And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

One pleasure of being old, I realize, is that you're free. Beyond caring what the neighbors might think.

The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive.

Ella is much younger. Maybe thirty. I don't know. And you certainly can't tell from the way she dresses. Middle of winter she finds a way to show her belly button. And she's got four hundred of these little elastic bands that can only pass for a skirt if you never move your legs. Top that with this unbelievable iridescent red hair and you've got one hot seventeen-year-old. At least that's what she thinks.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Membertou first was catechised, confessed his sins, and renounced the Devil, whom we are told he had faithfully served during a hundred and ten years.

Cuando una niña consigue perturbar a un señor de mediana edad, todo se vuelve muy complicado.

We are made of atoms. With each breath you inhale a million billion billion atoms of oxygen, which gives some idea of how small each one is. All of them, together with the carbon atoms in your skin, and indeed everything else on Earth, were cooked in a star some 5 billion years ago. So you are made of stuff that is as old as the planet, one-third as old as the universe, though this is the first time that those atoms have been gathered together such that they think that they are you.

This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.

Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?

All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time.

So you're not a child," Jessica said. "I'm millions of years old. That requires adjustments which humans have never before been called upon to make.

Princess-daughter," my father said, "I would that you'd been older when it came time for this man to choose a woman.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

You're the first boy I ever met who didn't know what a linebacker is. Boy. I'm twenty-four years old and she's calling me a boy and I'm wondering do you have to be forty to be a man in America?

An old man dies, a young woman lives. Fair trade.

Quite an affair had arisen from this circumstance. Miss Baker and Old Grannis were both over sixty, and yet it was current talk amongst the lodgers of the flat that the two were in love with each other. Singularly enough, they were not even acquaintances; never a word had passed between them.

A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

As soon as the idea of the Big Bang was proposed in the 1920s, astronomers set about trying to work out when the bang happened. Initial estimates were, not surprisingly, wildly inaccurate, but by the 1980s it was known that the universe was 15 billion years old, give or take 5 billion years.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.