Quotes About Age

However the simple fact that they have been resounding failures in our century does give them a certain spiritual quality. For all we know, they may be-these crushed wretches-the saints of our age.

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same, the more they change after all. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed, I headed back though the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come out of the rain.

Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.

by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk, and by a limb extending over the river, and another thinner limb growing near it. This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age...the old giants have become piggies while you were looking the other way.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

Only on May 23, 1918, had Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder, who oversaw the draft, issued his "work or fight" order, stating that anyone not employed in an essential industry would be drafted—an order that caused major league baseball to shorten its season and sent many ballplayers scurrying for jobs that were "essential"—and promising that "all men within the enlarged age would be called within a year.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

Age affects how people experience time.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.