Age Quotes

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Age affects how people experience time.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.