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Quotes About Change

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
~ Gerald Brenan
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
~ Joyce Kilmer
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
~ Charles Bukowski
Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.
~ Ann-Margret
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
~ Saul Bellow
The age of 40 is not a death sentence.
~ George Foreman
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Maggie Kuhn
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
~ Madonna Ciccone
The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
~ Brian Clough
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to serve the age, betray it.
~ Brendan Kennelly
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.
~ Milla Jovovich
I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.
~ Sky Ferreira
If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~ Gelett Burgess
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
~ John W. Gardner
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
~ Voltaire
I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.
~ Jack Nicholson
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
~ Owen D. Young