Quotes About Age

I'll give you a ten-thousand-dollar bonus if you can get them to stop calling me the 'Boy Billionaire.' It makes me feel like Bruce Wayne without the Batmobile. And I did just turn thirty-two. I hardly qualify as a 'Boy' anything.

Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me.

There was that gap between adults and children that reserved to each secrets that were hidden from the other. When you were old enough, you became privy to the secrets that belonged only to adults and lost in turn those that belonged only to children. You did not ever gain all of one or lose all of the other; of each, some you kept and some you never gained.

You imply a higher value to a life because of a young age. The line, my dear, across which the value of life becomes petty. Where is the line? But a child- He held up a cautionary finger. Do not think to play on my emotions by plying me with the value of the life of a child, as if a higher value can be placed on life because of age. When is a life worth less? Where is the line? At what age? Who decides? All life is of value. Dead is dead, no matter the age.

much the same as you men are strong and can wield a heavy battle-axe, whereas an old man could not. Even though you have the muscle to do this, that doesn't mean that your muscles can do what they aren't meant to do, such as exercise wisdom the old man has from his experience. He may defeat you in battle through his knowledge, rather than his muscle.

This is where, in a cheap novel, the couple, confronted by imminent oblivion, would suddenly make passionate love. It was a pity Nettie was now as old as she was.

Okay, so I lied about my age. Everybody does.

inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it. The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

en el interior de cada anciano, hay un joven preguntándose qué demonios ha pasado.

The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and g, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.

The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.

I often thought that everyone has their, you know, natural age.

When I'm old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. But, for now, she'd had enough of darkness.

old folks are s'pposed to like listenin' to the sound of children playin', I read that somewhere, I don't see why we should get told off 'cos we've got the wrong kind of old folks—

It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.

How do we not fall into a perpetual state of despair? My father said to me the other day, We have to stare it down. IT being grief. IT being everything he can't control like age, the waning strength of his legs, or the loss of another son.

men that age aren't known for their superior judgment.