Quotes About Age

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.