Age Quotes

"I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time."

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."

"I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting."

"The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason."

"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

"It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying."

"Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That's all they need."

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."

"I'm not sure what the right age is to start playing football."

"I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional and eternal. I get to carry that for the rest of my life, but on a practical level after age 10, it's just me sort of figuring it out."

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

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

"I get all fired up about aging in America."

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me."

"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."

"Minds ripen at very different ages."

"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work."

"The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis."

"You should never reveal your true age."

"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

"I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy."

"Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance."

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely."

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."

"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."

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

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in."

"I must confess, I was born at a very early age."

"I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96."

"Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date."

"New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture."

"My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July."

"Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age."

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."

"A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'"

"I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15."

"With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine."

"In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air."

"Some age, others mature."

"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age."