Quotes About Age

and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),

Bob was not yet twenty, after all, while Jesse was thirty-four and in physical decline; each calendar week subtracted from Jesse the powers that Bob accrued.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I will not make age an issue…. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

There is no one I want to visit except in the Ojibwe heaven, and so at this late age I'm going to convert, stupid dog, and become at long last the pagan that I always was at heart before I was Cecilia, when I was just Agnes, until I was seduced and diverted by the music of Chopin." "That neurasthenic pierogi snarfer!!", the dog ranted—it had never liked the composer . . . .

Love - which the young expect, the middle-aged fear or wrestle with or find unbearable or clutch to death- those content in their age, finally, cherish with pained gratitude.

the old geezer was eighty, he'd been horseback riding only last year ... now he had a different sport, he went down on all fours and the kids rode him ... giddyap, horsie! they whipped him with his riding whip! ... till the blood came! ... he loved it! ... all around his study! faster! faster! ... los! ... into the next room ... witches! witches! he yelled at them, with his bare old ass! ...

youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

The way to stay young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.

But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?

In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!

When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in love. I know people say it's just puppy love at that age, but I was in love properly. It lasted for years. It was the most powerful feeling I can ever remember. At that age one has no defenses. It just overwhelmed me.

Dante was young enough to be her son . . . maybe even her grandson. She had no business responding to him at all.

em idade de casar, que somos crianças, criançolas, – já ouvi dizer criançolas.

Se os mortos vão depressa, os velhos ainda vão mais depressa que os mortos... Viva a mocidade!

Todas as noivas têm quinze anos.