Quotes About Age

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -? so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Don't let your age control your life... Let your life control your age.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.

They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself it had become a classless society.