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Quotes About Time

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
~ May Sarton
I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).
~ Kishore Kumar
What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.
~ Hugh Hefner
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
~ Al-Masudi
When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
~ Mark Lowry
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.
~ Calvin Miller
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
~ Johnny Vegas
People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.
~ Henry Cavill
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.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
~ Sylvia Earle
We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
~ Roger Daltrey
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.
~ Phyllis Diller
I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
~ Winifred Holtby
The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.
~ Jerry Barber
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.
~ John Keble
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
~ Jean Rhys
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
~ E. B. White
I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
~ Groucho Marx
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
~ Alison Bechdel