Age Quotes

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

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.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

The age of the book is almost gone.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.