Age Quotes

"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."

"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."

"Age considers; youth ventures."

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"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."

"Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet."

"From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent."

"I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career."

"I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically."

"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat."

"I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand."

"I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis."

"In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family."

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul."

"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

"One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction."

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

"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."

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."

"The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head."

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

"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."

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

"With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health."

"With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in."

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it."

"How young can you die of old age?"

"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

"I think love can happen at any age... it has no age."

"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."

"I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything."

"In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete."

"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."

"Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services."