Quotes About Adaptation

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

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.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it's a good thing we're in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn't it? (Fang)

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.