Quotes About Age

You know, 65-year-olds love sneakers because they make them feel forty.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.

Believe me, I've totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don't care. I think that's one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.

To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

Surtout les vieillards sont dangereux, à qui le souvenir des choses passées demeure, et qui ont perdu le souvenir de leurs redites.

We are entering the age of the infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.

The final answer was actually given by Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. Being an amateur astronomer, he was fascinated by the paradox and said that the night sky is black because, if we travel back in time far enough, we eventually encounter a cutoff—that is, a beginning to the universe. In other words, the night sky is black because the universe has a finite age.

Sana : – Tanto 2 o 3 mesi passano in fretta! Mamma : – (narrando) Si separano tranquillamente, dicendosi che due o tre mesi passeranno in fretta… Ma quei bambini non sanno… …che per loro il tempo scorre moooolto più lentamente che per gli adulti.

As you go through life, you're gonna find out what I found, sometimes the hard way, that you're never too old to learn, that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

All he knew about old age was that it a time when a person had passed his maturity; when fate had ended; when there was no longer any need to fear that terrible mystery called the future; when every love than came along was certain and final.

Her beauty, which struck him at the time, did not make her look younger than her age; he might sooner have said that her age made her beauty more eloquent.

One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future.

Por uma certa parte de nós mesmos, vivemos todos além do tempo. Talvez só tomemos consciência da nossa idade em certos momentos excepcionais, sendo, na maior parte do tempo, uns sem-idade

Cos'hai?» disse lui. «Niente». «Cosa vuoi che faccia per te?». «Voglio che tu sia più vecchio. Più vecchio di dieci anni. Di vent'anni!». Con questo gli voleva dire: voglio che tu sia debole. Che tu sia debole quanto me.

Tandis qu'il se mouvait sur elle, en avant puis en arrière, il lui semblait décrire sans cesse le même mouvement, de l'enfance à l'âge adulte puis en sens inverse, et encore une fois du petit garçon qui regardait misérablement un gigantesque corps de femme à l'homme qui étreint ce corps et le dompte. Ce mouvement, qui mesure habituellement quinze centimètres à peine, était long comme trois décennies.

Omul care alearg? îÈ™i simte greutatea, vârsta, este mai conÈ™tient ca oricând de sine È™i de curgerea vieÈ›ii sale.

The old scholar was watching the noisy young people around him and it suddenly occurred to him that he was the only one in the whole audience who had the privilege of freedom, for he was old. Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future. He is alone with approaching death and death has no ears and does not need to be pleased. In the face of death a man can do and say what pleases his own self.

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.