Age Quotes

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

The trick is growing up without growing old.