Quotes About Change

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.