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Quotes About Age

I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
~ Bruce Coville
I was a mamma's boy. She had me at 15, so we were close enough in age where we could play basketball against each other. We used to play one-on-one and race in the yard all the time.
~ Demaryius Thomas
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
~ Jimmy Walker
There's people I respect, and I guess that can be a crush. I think someone like Eddie Redmayne, he's incredibly talented, and he's realistic to say, like, oh yeah, that can be a crush because he's not, like, fifty years old.
~ AJ Michalka
Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.
~ Antonio Davis
You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
~ M. C. Gainey
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
~ Spike Milligan
I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.
~ Steve Burns
What I think we should be doing is refocusing all the prevention budgets, all the money spent on teen gangs and young offenders, on conception to age two at a rate of 2% a year.
~ Andrea Leadsom
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
~ David Bowie
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
~ Julius Caesar
I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.
~ George Clooney
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
~ Helen Hayes
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.
~ Jay-Z
Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.
~ Marc Warren
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
~ Satchel Paige
I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.
~ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the projected demographics of video game play, the video game players of tomorrow are older adults.
~ Daphne Bavelier
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
~ Dan Jenkins
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
~ Maurice Chevalier