Quotes About Age

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

I love being in the band, I love being that person and it's such a beautiful and ridiculous adventure but that has an effect mentally, good and bad, just from being the age we were.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.

When I first met Hef, I didn't like him at all. I thought he was too old.

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.

When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book.

The mid '70s was the golden age. A lot of things were being born on the street then, and there was a lot of experimentation.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

I seem to fancy middle-aged men, weirdly.

I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

Millennials are worth less on paper than members of older generations are, and are worth less on paper than members of older generations were at the same point in their lives.

When Jack Nicklaus won the Masters in 1986, it was mind-blowing. How in the world could a 46-year-old win the Masters?

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

I can't grumble. I've been very content with the way things have gone. I may have minor quibbles as we all have, but I'm still working at 70.

Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.