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Quotes About Age

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
~ J. K. Rowling
I went to the Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm like, "These guys are Olympians now." There's no place for a Walter Matthau in a movie anymore.
~ Jai Courtney
In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.
~ James Cook
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
~ James Levine
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
~ Shannon Fife
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
~ Jane Austen
Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.
~ Jessica Mitford
I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
~ William Devane
I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
~ Jim Butcher
After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.
~ Joan Collins
Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.
~ Joan Rivers
I was neurotic and weird from an early age.
~ Joanne Froggatt
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
~ Joe Klein
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
~ Jennifer Aniston
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.
~ John Dryden
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
~ Sharon Olds
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.
~ Tom Wolfe
Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.
~ John F. Kennedy
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
~ John le Carre
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
~ Walter Isaacson
I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.
~ Vanessa Bayer
I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.
~ John Osborne