Age Quotes

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.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Youth has no age.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.