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Quotes About Age

l'età di per sè non rende nessuno migliore e più saggio, semplicemente accentua ciò che si èsempre stati.
~ Isabel Allende
Pregunta del periodista al Dalái Lama: ¿Puede recordar sus vidas pasadas? Respuesta: A mi edad me cuesta recordar lo que pasó ayer.
~ Isabel Allende
years. Thanks to them, she was saved from boredom, one of the scourges of old age. The rest of the Lark House community was like the view of the bay: something to be enjoyed from a distance, without getting her feet wet. For
~ Isabel Allende
Defy, disobey, and disrupt is for young women who don't have the responsibility of motherhood, and for grandmothers who are past their reproductive years.
~ Isabel Allende
Es inútil, Nicolás. ¿No ves que yo tengo el alma muy vieja y tú todavía eres un niño? Siempre serás un niño —le dijo.
~ Isabel Allende
I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
~ Alan Cumming
You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
~ Chick Corea
Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.
~ Mike Krieger
I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don't think I have much to envy!
~ David Starkey
I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible.
~ Josh Malerman
I hate how old people get in my way when I'm swimming. You're trying to get into the zone and normally, if there's someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don't; they're like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.
~ Sara Pascoe
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology Honours batch 92 - was 18, and I was often treated like a kid.
~ Anurag Kashyap
The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
~ Bertrand Russell
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
~ Henry Moore
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
~ William Osier
Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
~ Anonymous
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
~ Nancy Lady Astor
If the young only knew; if the old only could.
~ French saying
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
~ Richard Hughes
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
~ Jacques Bainville
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
~ Old saying
I feel age like an icicle down my back.
~ Dyson Carter
Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
~ Jonathan Swift
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
~ Daniel Defoe