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Quotes About Change

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
~ Pete du Pont
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
~ Jean Rhys
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
~ Theodore Dalrymple
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
~ Alison Bechdel
I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.
~ Tom Morello
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
~ Voltaire
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
~ Lawrence Durrell
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
~ Malcolm Cowley
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
~ Fidel Castro
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~ Dorothy Fuldheim
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
~ Voltaire
We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
~ James Oppenheim
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won't end because we run out of oil.
~ Ahmed Zaki Yamani
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.
~ Piet Mondrian
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.
~ Craig Childs
I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.
~ Guillermo del Toro
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.
~ Calvin Trillin
I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.
~ Joe Queenan
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
~ Vinnie Jones
We must be authors of the history of our age.
~ Madeleine Albright
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
~ Sandy Wilson