Quotes About Change

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

Nature is always behind the age.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

At my age flowers scare me.