Quotes About Age

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I have been thinking about our conversation and about your book, and I am afraid that I expressed myself badly yesterday. When I said that one may love and be loved at any age I ought to have added that sometimes this love comes too late. It comes when one no longer has the right to prove to the loved one how much she is loved, except by love's sacrifice.

She told me she would make it to 115. And she kept her word.

Most people would be full of questions," said the youth. "It's the nature of innocence to question, the nature of duty to accept." "And it's the nature of age to be too sure of itself.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend: The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words.

Mrs Harris was sixtyish, small and wiry, with cheeks like frosted apples, and naughty little eyes.

When a parent remarries a much younger spouse, the main dynamic that comes into play with adult children is sibling rivalry

When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them -- Jorge Luis Borges

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

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Granny said. "Only fellow my age I know still got lead in his pencil.

Forty-eight, okay? I don't put my teeth in a jar and I still drive at night.

J'avais vingt ans. Je ne laisserai personne dire que c'est le plus bel âge de la vie.

The now-common practice by men and women to delay parenting until they are almost too old to become parents has led to numerous medical disasters. It has long been known that infertility is a problem when women delay parenting, as well as Down syndrome. Now we know children of men who delay parenting also can end up paying a medical price.

Children born to dads over age thirty were found to be almost an inch taller, on average, than those born to fathers under thirty.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

My darlings! You can hardly expect an aged crone like me to mar such a lovely event. No, I shall remain here and knit shadows. Now go forth and shine bravely, and think of nothing but love.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.

And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

Sleep isn't a skill." I laughed at him. "But of course, señorita. The innocent have it. They're born with it. Somehow you lose it as you age. Worry steals it away.