Quotes About Age

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

The older you get, the more it means.

But old people usually seemed pretty embarrassed to bring up such matters right in front of young people. Probably because of the inherent implication that the world's old people were ecological criminals.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I harbored in my mind a sort of utopia about 'an age of genius' that supposedly existed in my life once upon a time, not in any calendar year but on a level above chronology, an age when everything blazed with godly colors and one took in the whole sky with a single breath, like a gulp of pure ultramarine.

By 1993, McMahon thought Savage was getting too old and phased him out of the ring and into a commentator spot.

to men and women alike your age just a number if you love the person for who they are what they are and respect there beliefs and accept them for who they are you love them in short love is all you need in a relationship and throw your age out the proverbial window.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old.

When you're twenty-two and you pass out at a friend's house, it's totally normal. When you do it at forty-two, you're never invited back.

Sometime I hope I get a chance to be young before I get too old to enjoy it -Anne Shirley

Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.

But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age of man.

Lo más probable es que su larga experiencia hubiese enseñado al anciano esa amarga prudencia que ni aconseja ni se entromete en nada.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. Among sea-commanders, the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the night-cloaked deck.

But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see. But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.

Look at a politician, eighty years old, making a speech to a crowd in the rain. What's driving him? Not ambition. He's been a senator for forty years. He can never be anything more. But by winning this election he can have one more Hit.

left to the inferior animals called older people.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.