Quotes About Age

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.