Quotes About Age

I don't think there will ever come a time that I can't learn from my parents, but there's something wonderful about getting to the age where you can role-reverse and share exciting and interesting things that you have learnt, too - even better when it's a shared passion.

Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

I'm glad I wasn't seated next to Celia, because what is there to say to someone younger than you who marries for money, except "How do you like your money?

her third day in New York, Jacaranda looked at herself in the Essex mirror and thought she looked ten years younger than the forty she'd looked in La Jolla. By the fourth day she looked twenty-five years old, and by the end of a week she looked what her mother, when she saw her, referred to as "your age, dear, eighteen.

A woman who was about Jacaranda's age approached them. She was what Jacaranda thought of as "one of those Vassar graduates who can spell from birth.

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

The age demanded an imageOf its accelerated grimace,Something for the modern stage,Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men.

Mozart was so precocious that, at the age of 35, he was already dead!

You're robbing the cradle, then," he said. Humor filled his face. "You're a cougar." Laughter burbled out of me, part of it relieved nerves, the other part surprise at the play on words. "I'm not that kind of cougar," I said, my tone lofty.

She'd quite liked being young and stupid. It beat middle-aged and fairly intelligent. Sometimes.

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

According to a Kabbalistic rabbi, in the Messianic age people will no longer quarrel with others but only with themselves.

You're on Facebook, Uncle Reid?" Athens asked. "Of course he is," Liliana said. "That's where all the old people go to waste their time." "Hey,

So much space, such silence, so much time. To drift. To think. To let your mind roam anywhere it pleases. To dream. Perhaps the true luxury of our age is not the piles of goods we endlessly accumulate, but Time.

We shall not allow ourselves to repeat the often-voiced opinion that "civilizations are mortal." Mortal perhaps are their ephemeral blooms, the intricate and short-lived creations of an age, their economic triumphs and their social trials, in the short term. But their foundations remain. They are not indestructible, but they are many times more solid than one might imagine.