Quotes About Age

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

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.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!