Quotes About Age

I am aged with a sickness of the mind.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

There used to be so many good times, when I was your age." She ran her finger slowly round and round her cup, as though it were a fine-stemmed wine glass rather than a chipped and stained dining-room survivor, as though she were trying to recapture an echo of times past.

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

I let fall a husky laugh. "You've seen my husband, right?" Adam was gorgeous. "But some nights . . . I'm not on the right side of thirty anymore, you know? Sometimes I'm tired. I just get to sleep, and he's nudging me again." I gave her what I hoped would come out as a shy, hopeful smile. "Do you have anything that might help with that?

Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you're in charge. Especially if you think you're in charge. (Adam)

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

It is not wise," Beauclaire said, his voice clipped, and somewhere in the vowels Anna heard an accent not too far from Bran's when he was angered. "It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

I told them,' he said in a clear, carrying voice, 'that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you are in charge. Especially if you think you are in charge.

My foster mother maintained that I could get dirty in a swimming pool, and getting older hadn't helped much.

Old women in the house. That's all we need," grumped Grandfather. "That from an old man, of course," said Papa.

Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.

I'll bet I'm the only eighty-five-year-old cracker left with all his own teeth.

the law is a blind woman and the judge usually an unloved old man.

A prediction: In coming decades, involuntary euthanasia will be commonplace in Europe, and Gen-Xers' battles to stay alive into old age will be treated with the same cold contempt as they treated the silent screams of the unborn. Millions will be put to sleep like aged and incontinent household pets." -The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz, Jan. 18, 2002

which encouraged a general sense of fellowship in the chaotic shipwreck that is old age.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

He's a woman. He's a grown woman He's a old woman.