Age Quotes

"Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age."

"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."

"Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one."

"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."

"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."

"Age is so immaterial. Isn't this all just the blink of an eyelash?"

"Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age."

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

"Leadership and punching above your weight doesn't necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example, and helping other countries."

"In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age."

"One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it."

"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."

"We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature."

"If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50."

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

"I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe."

"In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age."

"It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to."

"I never actually got noticed on the street for 'Harry Potter.' I did it at such a young age, when I was going through puberty and changing up my hair and how I looked."

"We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile."

"I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland."

"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."

"In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less."

"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age."

"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."

"People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything."

"I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while."

"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."

"As men get older, the toys get more expensive."

"Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife."

"I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age."

"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

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

"When I came up with the idea for 'Tuskegee,' I didn't want to be confined by boundaries of age, genre or demographics. I am thrilled with how well this album has been received by people from all walks of life. It is truly living up to the vision we had when we created it."

"While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish."

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

"Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves."

"Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something."

"The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels."

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

"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."

"Chinese people age overnight."

"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."

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

"In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself."

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

"I was never the best in my age group. I was like the Ugly Duckling because I am not beautiful to see but I always improved. That is my best skill."