Quotes About Age

As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

When I signed my first contract with Sao Paulo I still wasn't sure that I was going to have a successful career. Even after you turn professional the competition is so intense, and as I was a bit older than some of the other players, I thought that it would be harder for me.

I was 32 when I signed for Everton, and Roberto Martinez said, 'With your style of game, you can play until you're 40.' I'm sitting there laughing at him, but he was deadly serious. I still laughed.

Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.

During my initial days of modeling, I started dating men much older than my age who would pamper me silly with expensive gifts.

This new age metal Luminex Uno- made up of gold, platinum and silver is excellent.

I know people that make similar content to me who are 30 or 40 years old. So I don't think there is an age limit to it at all.

I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It's a little dangerous.

You see, I read reviews of people like Paul Simon, and they don't talk about the fact that he's looking old or whether he is fashionable; they talk about the music, which is how it should be.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Like many men in their forties, he tended to dress in the style of his youth as if it were the current fashion.

On that question Henry kept his opinion to himself. It was all speculation anyway. People were going to do what they were going to do. After a certain age he'd ceased to believe he might influence their lives.

She was pissing me off and I found myself using a mild, deadly tone. "Age doesn't matter. Bobby's dead now. He's older than God. He's as old as anybody's ever going to get.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Pam is petite, a bristly little chihuahua of a human being. She is the only woman I ever met who claims to be ten years older than she actually is so everyone will tell her how young she looks.

Fear of having done the wrong thing—fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth—fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such endless fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.

Do you think age matters when it comes to friendship?

I'm not saying I don't have responsibility. I do. I'll take all of it. I'm saying we didn't want to hurt anyone." The smile faded. "Isn't that what criminals always say? So that doesn't work. I suppose I want you to know I'm sorry for the pain you and your family are going through. But I can't be sorry I love Blaine. He's a blessing, and at my age, you get pretty excited by blessings.

Ours is indeed an age of extremity. For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

And being a man – and a clever one – and forty-two years old, he naturally had a great deal of information and a great many opinions upon almost every subject you care to mention, which he was eager to communicate to a lovely woman of nineteen – all of which, he thought, she could not fail but to find quite enthralling.

Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn't live long enough to know how right he was.

You mean at my age, I should care?

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.