Quotes About Age

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered. "Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

like abstract mathematics. Scientists have studied "brain plasticity," the ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences. It appears that different types of plasticity are dominant at different ages.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Are the dead restored? The books say no, the night shouts yes. I am twenty, I have reached the age of reason

He also embraced a cyclical theory of history. History, he believed, flowed in cycles. Infant nations were virtuous and uncorrupted, but with age they grew tainted, eventually falling into decline and succumbing to their encumbering maladies and vices.

young desire it, the middle aged are not averse, the old alone are opposed to it [and they soon] will die.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

Yes. A few weeks with people closer to his own age will do him good. After all, folk do say I can be a little grim from time to time." "You, Halt? Grim? Who could say such a thing?" Gilan said. Halt glanced at him suspiciously. Gilan was, all too obviously, just managing to keep a straight face. "You know, Gilan," He said, "sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.

Age before beauty,' he said to Halt. The older Ranger's eyebrow rose slightly. 'Pearl before swine,' he replied

Wat een bijzonder meisje,' zei Thorn zachtjes. 'Als ik een paar jaar jonger was...' 'Dan was je nog steeds oud genoeg om haar vader te zijn,' maakte Lydia zijn zin voor hem af.

for he was now eighty-four years of age. The good prelate replied, that as he had long taught others to save their souls, he should only think now of his own salvation. The worthy prelate heard his fiery sentence without emotion, walked cheerfully to the place of execution, and underwent his martyrdom with great fortitude.

why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

The age is dull and mean. Men creep,Not walk.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

I'm officially at the age where I see that commercial for the Craftmatic Adjustable Bed and think, "Sweet! Are you kidding me? You mean I can sleep in the shape of a U?"

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

There is no fool to the old fool.