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Quotes About Age

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
~ Ian Fleming
There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
~ Iman
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space it's through time.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.
~ Jim Harrison
Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.
~ Jack Nicklaus
There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.
~ Carla Hayden
Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Robert...When you are eighty-two years old, know that there is an eighty-year-old woman somewhere who loves you. Isn't that a delightful thought to keep you going for the next fifty years or so?" "You will probably still have a court of admirers," he said, "and will not be interested in knowing that there is also an eighty-two-year-old man who loves you.
~ Mary Balogh
We are not old, and even if we are, we are not dead.
~ Mary Balogh
La sabiduría viene de la experiencia, y hasta el momento sólo tengo veintiocho años de experiencia.
~ Mary Balogh
beautiful woman. Beautiful? That thought cleared his head. "Uh . . . you're not fifty or sixty years old
~ Mary Connealy
Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes. Everything you do on a sailboat is done slowly and thoughtfully. Most of the time, an old body is entirely capable of doing whatever needs to be done while you're cruising. And if the sea is determined to teach you a lesson, well, a young back is no more capable than an old one of resisting an ocean, so experience counts more than ever.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Ninety-nine years old and batting her eyelashes like a Chi O at a KA mixer.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Our eighty-year-old bookkeeper slash office manager. I love Miss Joyce to pieces, but I seriously doubt she's interested in starting a new relationship.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
This is the lesson of age—events pass, things change, trauma fades, good fortune rises, fades, rises again but different.
~ Mary Oliver
At one I paused to drink, and inside me the water whispered: And now, like us, you are a million years old.
~ Mary Oliver
We need to stop allowing the unsupported testimony of children who are of an age where they can barely distinguish fantasy and reality.
~ Mary Pride
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
~ Mary Shelley
In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you are alive, and back with me here. By the great God of heaven, I have you back with me. What should I fear now?
~ Mary Stewart
I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.
~ Mary Wesley
They're all about forty, I'd guess, but they could pass for thirty in that way that handsome gay men can seemingly defy the basic rules of nature.
~ Matthew Norman
A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a student and too worn for a faculty member, stared at him with the familiar, insatiable gleam of the literary admirer.
~ Matthew Pearl