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Quotes About Age

Brother, there's no end to your knowledge.' 'I'm just old,' Cormac says with a chuckle.
~ Emma Donoghue
All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine - making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria - and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.
~ Emma Donoghue
Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.
~ Eoin Colfer
I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.
~ Eoin Colfer
I am exactly the right age for this project," said Minerva. "I'm young enough to believe in magic and old enough to understand how it works.
~ Eoin Colfer
Someone old enough to grasp the principles of commerce, yet young enough to believe in magic
~ Eoin Colfer
I am older and have more control over my empathy," said Qwan. "That's why I didn't throw up." And having said that, he threw up.
~ Eoin Colfer
Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences — nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
~ Eric Hoffer
Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
~ Erica Jong
I don't believe in dying for causes. I don't believe in dying for poetry. Once I worshiped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
~ Erica Jong
Nous avions le temps. Lui, parce qu'il était vieux, moi parce que j'étais jeune. [We had time. Him, because he was old, me because I was young.]
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Hearing her laugh nearly made him cum in his pants like a teenager, not a one hundred and twenty-five year old werewolf.
~ Amanda Clark
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
~ Amanda Peet
Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that "it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's scorn".
~ Amanda Vickery
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Old is gold, but new is platinum.
~ Amit
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Whiskey to himself "God, please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting
~ Amy Lane
When can you score?" Oh, to hell with this noise. "When you're eighteen. And a half." "Why the half?" Abner asked suspiciously. "You have to wait until the permit goes through,
~ Amy Lane