Age Quotes

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

I want to age with some dignity.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.