Quotes About Age

Historically, if people live to be 75 years of age, they live through two recessions and one depression.

must prepare for the opportunities of the Information Age.

he was about 20 years older than I was.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.

Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.

Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

There's no men like that nowadays. This is a degenerate age, Miss Shirley." "Homer said the same thing eight hundred years, B.C.," smiled Anne.

Allan thinks it is a proper book for a girl thirteen and three-quarters to read.

If we never have any adventures we'll have nothing to remember when we get old.

Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best.

The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones," Louisa said. "You'll probably last till you're about sixty.

What would you know about anything, Jasper?" Augustus asked. "Age don't slow a man's whoring. It's lack of income that does that. No more prosperous than you look, I wouldn't think you'd know much about it.

I've heard of you, McCrae. But I didn't know you was so old." "Oh, I wasn't till lately," Augustus said.

Miss Josette was an African-American woman, probably in her late seventies, but who could easily pass for early sixties. She had intelligent, almond-shaped eyes, smooth skin the color of rich mahogany

That machine's a great invention! he said. Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

Girls were always attracted to middle-aged men with interesting pasts.' The relationship is all about hero-worship on one side, youth-worship on the other

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts? I am over two hundred, Jean-Claude said. I rest my case.

I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I'd kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.

I usually have to make you sleep on a job,' Edward said. 'Maybe I'm getting old,' I said. 'You're younger than I am,' he said. I smiled. 'Maybe I just got out of the hospital after being shot and spent the last few hours in a brutal fucking battle against killer zombies, and so I'm a little tired.' He

The older I get the more I realize that ignorance may not be bliss, but sometimes it beats the alternative.

And of course, she wore high-waisted bike shorts, a too-cropped-for-her-age tank

An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences. You coulda done plenty, Joey. I never gave you a chance.

An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences.

You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.