Age Quotes

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Education is the best provision for old age.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.