Quotes About Age

God's getting older, too, I figure.

Life, she felt, is like a long unbroken line when one dies in the same place in which he was born. Childhood doesn't seem long ago when every day a man sees the same things he saw the first time he began to look around. Then there can't seem such a sharp division between youth and age. A person would grow into his years like a tree.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Suddenly I'd found myself past thirty, shacked up with a fussy bald man nine years my senior who enjoyed monitoring every facet of our household—finances, thermostat, hot-water heater, water and electricity usage, lawn maintenance, and pest control.

It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing." "Most would call that a blessing." She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.

And then Alec had a providient thought. "D'you want my sister?" "Octavia!" Hugh gasped at him. "isn't she twelve?" "She's nineteen." "I can't marry her. I'd keep picturing her as twelve.

It's not their fault that their conversation is useless. They'll grow out of it. People are like fine wines. If they start off good, they only get better with age.

You said you were going to struggle," he explained. "Yes, but what does that have to do—" "Remember when I said I was too old for this?" She nodded. "Well, 'this' includes a struggle.

He still had dreams about it. Certainly not nightmares - it could not be worth the energy. But every month or so he woke up from one of those annoying visions where he was back at school (rather absurdly at his current age of eight-and-twenty). It was always of a similar nature. He looked down at his schedule and suddenly realized he'd forgotten to attend Latin class for an entire term. Or arrived for an exam without his trousers.

As the author of this book, however, I'd like to think I have a certain creative control over the medical conditions of my characters, so I've decided that Anthony has no allergies of any kind, and furthermore will live to the ripe old age of 92.

Lady Danbury: You are getting smart in your old age Mr. Bridgerton. Colin: It has occasionally been remarked that I possessed a small modicum of intelligence in my youth, as well. Lady Danbury: Hmmph. The important word in that sentence being 'small', of course. Colin looked at Penelope through narrowed eyes. She appeared to be choking on laughter.

The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.

It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

My father was an electrical engineer. He's presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical way of looking at things, and I enjoyed that very much. I think that was a very large influence.

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.