Quotes About Age

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life really never grows old.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

division of labor within the intelligence community, especially between the NSA and the CIA. In the old days, this division was clear: if information moved, the NSA would intercept it; if it stood still, the CIA would send a spy to nab it. NSA intercepted electrons whooshing through the air or over phone lines; CIA stole documents sitting on a desk or in a vault. The line had been sharply drawn for decades. But in the digital age, the line grew fuzzy.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

Perhaps only the acknowledgement of this radical incommensurability between human existence and the dynamic of collective history and production is capable of generating new kinds of political attitudes; new kinds of political perception, as well as of political patience; and new methods for decoding the age as well, and reading the imperceptible tremors within it of an inconceivable future.

And old rat is a brave rat.

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Wenn überhaupt die Geschichte auch im Jünglingsalter der Völker eine edle Lehrerin ist, so hat sie in Zeitaltern, wie das unsrige, noch ein anderes und heiligeres Amt.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. —MUHAMMAD ALI

Mars is like that uncleaned closet we have neglected for millenniums. Sin has collected there like bric-a-brac. Mars is twice Earth's age and has had double the number of Saturday nights, liquor baths, and eye-poppings at women as naked as white seals. When we open that closet door, things will fall on us.

When you're young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we're all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If he weren't blind, that is. Dumb metaphor, I thought. I'll have to work on that one. I have trouble with metaphors.

You're young," Teft said. "I'm old." "That makes you wiser, presumably?" "Damnation no. The only thing it proves is that I've more experience staying alive than you.

I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.