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Quotes About Change

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
~ Jean Anouilh
nobody ever intends to be old.
~ Marie Corelli
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
~ Helen Keller
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
~ Samuel Johnson
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
~ James Laughlin
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
~ Harry Seidler
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.
~ Moses Hess
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
~ Alain de Botton
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
~ Thomas Hood
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
~ Gene Perret
Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough
~ Brad Pitt
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
~ William Butler Yeats
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
~ Allen Tate
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
~ John Marsden
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
~ Bennett Cerf
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
~ Piers Corbyn
Years do not always make age.
~ George Sand
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
~ Nigel Melville
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
~ Patti Stanger
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
~ William Ralph Inge