Quotes About Age

I wonder at what point a child becomes a person. Does it happen all at once, or slowly, in stages? Is there an age, a week, a moment, at which all the secrets of the universe are revealed and adulthood descends on a cloud from heaven, altering the brain forever? Will the child-me slink off one day, never to return?

wonder at what point a child becomes a person. Does it happen all at once, or slowly, in stages? Is there an age, a week, a moment, at which all the secrets of the universe are revealed and adulthood descends on a cloud from heaven, altering the brain forever? Will the child-me slink off one day, never to return?

No, of course not. I just feel content," she said carefully. "That's an old person's word," said Ethan.

Everybody's grown-up, everybody's old, and the normal rules do apply.

when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.

She'd smelled of confidence and lilies. She was my age, and yet she had what I did not - a lack of care or fear.

Even at the tender age of twelve, when I knelt in front of the bishop for my confirmation, I had the sneaking suspicion that the Episcopal Church was just a politically correct social club for wealthy white people in designer clothes. p29

Ma'am. It should've made her feel old and possibly respected, but instead made her flash on a vision of herself in librarian glasses and a pencil skirt, with her hair in a bun and a ruler in her hand.

there are . . . in every age a few in whose lot the meaning of that age is concentrated"? "I feel that I am one of those persons in my age and sex," she told him. "I feel chosen among women." Margaret would preserve her right to fill an apostolic station, if called.

My mother, of course, had a different opinion. 'They're driving me crazy!' she said, swatting at them with her beige Coach handbag. 'How can you tell?' my dad asked. 'Between your menopause craziness and your turning fifty craziness and everything else?' 'Forty-eight!' my mom cried. Dad groaned. 'Have you forgotten who you're lying to?

The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

Smiling face is always beautiful even if it is hundred years old!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

black as it gets older. So a woollybear with more black is really just a younger caterpillar.

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty," they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred.