Quotes About Age

Now, In June, When the night is a vast softness Filled with blue stars, And broken shafts of moon-glimmer Fall upon the earth, Am I too old to see the fairies dance? I cannot find them any more.

Let guns alone salute The wisdom of our age With dusty powder marks On yet another page of history.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

Wraith held up his hands. "Chill, Gramps. I don't want to sit on your knee or anything.

Looking thirty, claiming forty, actually forty-five.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

The average age of our bench is deceased.

When you get to be my age," Maude said "most things were a long time ago. But in here?" She tapped her chest... "Some things happened yesterday." "I nodded. I could feel how that was going to happen. It was already happening.

Los ancianos tenemos la sabiduría , los adultos la seguridad , los niños la ilusión pero solo los jovenes tienen el poder de cambiasr el mundo. Gaernon

Los viejos tenemos el conocimiento -dijo Gaernon con amabilidad, ignorando a Kim-. Los adultos tienen la seguridad. Los niños tienen la ilusión. Pero sois los jóvenes los que teneís el poder para cambiar el mundo, Keyko. No lo olvides jamás.

His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke

Who looks at a woman's elbows, you sick fuck?" "I'm just saying it's the one place that a woman can't hide her age. My wife told me. She lemons hers sometimes. Cuts a lemon in half, hollows it out, fills it with olive oil and kosher salt and sits at her vanity, arms up like a little bunny." Lenhardt demonstrated the pose. "I tell you, Kevin, it's like going to bed with a fucking tossed salad.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Pretty young for a waiter, aren't you?" "I'm older than I look," Clancy assured her. "You better be because you look about nine." Clancy decided he did not like this woman.

Don't wait too long to be rescued, old lady – you might pass your sell-by date.

You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance." --Brody to Erin.