Quotes About Age

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

People only use this prophecy to sell books and movies in Hollywood. On the Mayan calendar, this day is the end of an age. In the end of the age, the prophecy says that the people will have ceased to live as human beings, and something big will happen, and the people will see each other again. I

Mother told me," he sighs. "She'd been over to Drayden Hill to get a baby fix, since your sister and Courtney and the boys are visiting. Now she's on the grandkid kick again." Elliot is understandably frustrated. "She reminded me that I'm thirty-one already, and she's fifty-seven, and she doesn't want to be an old grandmother.

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

And I am not old," she continued. "I am but thirty." "Ah, but you will be thirty-one come the sixth of March," he said. "You certainly are not young." "I believe we may have to return to the topic of my weight," she said tartly. "You will be more apt to see thirty-six that way.

First the Lord used Elizabeth, who was 'too old,' then he used Mary, who would be 'too young' by today's standards. At any age we can serve the Lord.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

Inside every old man lies the heart of a ten-year-old boy. Brave . . . unstoppable. The defender of field mice!

The panning shot of the soldiers as they ready themselves for the onslaught and now I finally see that I'm the one with the scar running down half her face and that these eyes . . . ohhhh, these eyes have seen some horrors. And that that's a good thing. Age. Wisdom. Being forty. I like it here.

Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old womans wisdom.

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, life-long intoxication.

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.