Quotes About Age

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Letzten Endes ist das schönste Alter dasjenige, in dem man weiss, an welchen Träumen man am stärksten hängt, und in dem noch einige davon verwirklichen kann.

Ma capite questo, che io non diventerò mai un uomo anziano come voi, se ora dicessi di sì, e questa sarebbe una maniera di dir sì, quando da uomo giovane ho giurato di dir no fino in fondo?

I have always observed, that a rake who is a minute philosopher, when grown old, becomes a sharper in business.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

When I am your age, when the years have thinned my blood, when rage has cooled into judgment, then I will go in for treaties, compromises. Now, I must fight.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…. Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd.

if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

from a child's perspective all adults are old and fat

O blindness of the great! They go their way like gods, Great over bent backs, Sure of hired fists, Trusting in the power Which has lasted so long. But long is not forever. O change from age to age! Thou hope of the people!

Oh, why couldn't they know? Why did an old woman seem always to have been old? Abbie was back on the knoll near the Big Woods, singing...her head thrown back...her thick hair curling and rippling over her creamy white shoulders. Why couldn't they understand that once she had kept tryst with Youth? Why didn't they realize that some day, they, too must hold rendezvous with Age?

On another note - Sarton writes about "people in their thirties mourning their lost youth because we have given them no ethos that makes maturity appear an asset." I very much feel this to be true. Turning twenty-one is the nadir of American achievement, one can get smashed legally, and as there are no further milestones after that, each succeeding birthday reeks of diminishment. People start to lie about their age, as if maturity is a thing to be ashamed of.

Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.

by age seven, many of the habits that will help kids manage their money are already set.

I'm quiet for a long moment, and Velva just sits with me, waiting. She's good at that. Just being a companion, not pushing or prodding, but waiting as if she has all the time in the world. Why is it that a woman of 94, who probably has very little time left, can be far more patient that an woman of 30 who has a lot of years ahead of her?