Age Quotes
- Page 34Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard Dawkins
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
Annie Lennox
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
Brandon Boyd
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
Bobby Darin
He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
Derek Jacobi
Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
Lois Wyse
We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
Jane Fonda
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
Ida Lupino
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Meryl Streep
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
Bram Stoker
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Rachel Roy