Age Quotes

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

I don't care about age very much.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.