Quotes About Age

grip my arm. I willed the old

They say you only really appreciate a garden once you reach a certain age, and I suppose there is a truth in that. It's probably something to do with the great circle of life. There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage.

bringing in an old woman with breathing problems, caught

It's nineties music. Olden-days stuff!" she said cheerfully, and I tried not to think too hard about the fact that I was, in her eyes, basically geriatric.

And she's ancient. How old must she be? Twenty-seven? Twenty-eight?

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters

A day older than yesterday, a day younger than tomorrow. Beyond that, I don't think much about it.

One grandparent saving another, she'd said, or some version of that. What was it Mark Twain had said about age? Something like "Age is an issue of mind over matter," Brixton recalled. "If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age is an issue of mind over matter," Brixton recalled. "If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.

I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

At a certain age we forget to be afraid of people. We start to dread, instead, their absence.

Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.

Unfortunately, that advice, while sound, is difficult to follow; how difficult depends on not just our attitude, but also our age.

They included a chart showing that in Latin America life satisfaction declines from the twenties to about age forty-eight, then increases. "Studies in advanced industrial economies find a similar relationship," they wrote, "although the low point on the happiness curve usually occurs either slightly earlier or slightly later, depending on the country.

You all sound like you think sixty-five is old because the world tells you sixty-five is old," she admonished. "As a few years go by, you'll realize sixty-five is pretty young.

images of middle-aged men surrounded by young women. And images of middle-aged men posing atop motorcycles while surrounded by young women.

This is what constitutes an "heroic age": that a people subsisting stably on pasture and tillage, with a simple system of customary law and an already established social hierarchy, is provided with an opportunity to prey on a rich, highly organized and prestigious civilization.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

The seventeenth century was the dawn of an age of secularisation. The twenty-first century will be the start of an age of desecularisation.

In an age in which rulers wrote history in the form of triumphal inscriptions, the Israelites alone recorded their failures more vividly than their successes.

I don't know how old the man was... but he was definitely closer to coffin than crib.