Quotes About Age

He called after me, "How old am I, Maya?" I turned. "How the hell should I know? Whatever you've told the school, I'm sure it's a lie anyway." "I'm sixteen, just like you. Or like you will be tomorrow, from what I heard. My birthday was last month." "Congratulations." I started walking again. "I'll send you a card next year, if you hang around that long, which I doubt.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)

He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred.

For years we've been campaigning against the rule that women can't vote. That's the barrier. Once it's broken down, people will see further concessions as mere technicalities. It will be relatively easy to get the voting age lowered and other restrictions eased.

Cuántos años pueden algunas personas vivir, antes de que se les permita ser libres?»

I'm only thirty-seven, he thought; is this when old age begins?

In year three, he became two years old, and so on. So this year, nine hundred and ninety-seven, he becomes nine hundred and ninety-six.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light To stamp the seal of time in aged things To wake the morn and sentinel the night To wrong the wronger till he render right To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours And smear with dust their glittering golden towers

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Wherever there is power there is age.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

The power of a young woman is in her beauty and charm. The power of a woman in her later years is her social position and her ability to convince.

People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence

Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

He still lived as if he were twenty-two.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

The Albion Mills was London's first factory, and its first great symbol of industrialization; its construction inaugurated not only the great age of steam-driven factories,* but also the doomed though poignant resistance to them.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.