Quotes About Age

The technology which, in our culture, has released urban and even rural man from the quiet before his hearth log has debauched his taste. Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

I would guess that there are limits to what we can understand. But old people always think there are limits to what we can understand. It's the young people who push past those limits.

As old wood is best to burn; old horses to ride; old books to read; old wine to drink; so are old friends most trusty to use.

If young people tell me I'm young at heart, I take offence -- I'm OLD at heart. Si la gente joven me dice que soy joven de corazón, me ofendo: soy VIEJA de corazón.

hundred and ten is not such a great age, from a biblical point of view at least.

Qué haré? —dije—. Es una pena suicidarse después de haber vivido noventa y nueve años sin entender nada.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

Almost by instinct I began to incorporate more narrative in my preaching, in part because storytelling seemed to be the one communicational mode I could depend upon to cross lines of education and age.

Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

What made the marriage unusual, then, was not the age difference but its closeness, especially given the difference in social status between husband and wife. And the fact that it was she who proposed to him.

Dear,' he said, 'I'm not complaining. We don't live in a magnificent age, but I've done my best to make life magnificent as I see it – to live my ideal of the happy warrior. But you made that possible. You made me seek and fight for the tremendous things. Battle and sudden death – yes, but battle and sudden death in the name of peace and life and love. You know I love you, Pat .

God," she said, "by the time we're old enough to have sex, we're already too ashamed to be touched. Ain't that a crime?

Are you old enough to be young again?

Past all the silliness of youth -- with its insecurities, cheap thrills, and ill-fitting identities -- lies the snug comfort of age.

The book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty -- and vice versa.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

Oh Christ. I couldn't care less.... I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off.

A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.

Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect ; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise.

There are in existence two periods when we shrink from any great vicissitude—early youth and old age. In the middle of life, we are indifferent to change ; for we have discovered that nothing is, in the end, so good or so bad as it at first appeared.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.