Quotes About Age

As far as his contemporaries were concerned, there was no question about his stature in American history. In the extravaganza of mourning that occurred in more than four hundred towns and hamlets throughout the land, he was described as the only indisputable hero of the age, the one and only "His Excellency.

Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.

Scientists inform us that you build a new body every eleven months; so from a physical standpoint you are really only eleven months old.

Age is not the flight of years; it is really the dawn of wisdom and Divine knowledge in you.

La edad no es la huida de los años, sino el amanecer de la sabiduría.

Truly, you are as old as you think and feel.

Yet life is endless. Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.

Smaller families also created a narrower age gap between first- and last-born children; this trend, in turn, meant that children shared more in common with one another than with their parents.

I'm disgusted when I see some old guy with a younger woman. Or a younger guy with a younger woman. Just couples. Or groups. Any person.

To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.

NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder's warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her heartbeat quickened in protest: How could you! Kiss him! That old man! Kiss him! Let him put his arms around you ad kiss you and kiss him back! The old man's mouth and Katya Spivak's mouth! How could you.

He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year.

If this was a flirtation — and it felt like a flirtation — it was like no other flirtation in Katya's experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather?

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.

La memoria, a esta edad mía, es engañosa; por eso yo le doy gracias a Dios, porque si acaba con todas mis facultades, ya no pierdo mucho, ya que casi no me queda ninguna.

Alistair opened his eyes. My dear, I haven't exerted myself in years. Then it's way past time to start, old man. - Reagan

Not for him to accept the decrepitude of old human age.

Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. "I hate funerals, don't you?" He said. "I rather like them," she said smugly. "At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

If I should ever have children I will tell them what religion they are so they can start learning about it at an early age. Twelve is very late to learn. Sincerely, Margaret Ann Simon

I love the way people always think they know somebody your age until you tell them how old you really are! "I'm going on twelve," I said. "Gretchen is almost twelve too," the doctor said. Well! He was right about my age.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14.