Quotes About Age

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

He's as old as some trees.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.