Age Quotes

"Nobody escapes age and gravity."

"I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age."

"There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice."

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

"I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13."

"Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference."

"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

"Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9."

"The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life."

"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."

"My first book is called 'The New Age Millennium: An Expose of Symbols, Slogans and Hidden Agendas.' When the book first came out, everybody called me a conspiracy theorist."

"At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Age is inevitable. Aging isn't."

"Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write."

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

"It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays."

"Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."

"I'm not afraid of aging."

"The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age."

"My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed."

"I was born in Kerala, where my maternal grandparents lived, and stayed there till the age of one, after which I came to Maharashtra to live with my parents and moved all around the state with my father, who worked as a superintendent in an ordnance factory."

"I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music."

"I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do."

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come."

"Me and my older brother used to do little stupid sketches from a young age, so it was always there but I never thought I could make a living from it, even though I knew I could do it every day."

"The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome."

"Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time."

"I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are."

"In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable."

"In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like."

"I think your musical tastes are largely shaped at a young age by your parents, as they're in charge of what's on in the car."

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

"You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you."

"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."

"If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues."

"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."

"It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make."

"One of my favorite things, coming of age, reading comics, was these ideologies and these philosophies of these characters. Seeing those on the page really represented in amazing ways some of my favorite 'Batman' comics like 'The Killing Joke' or 'The Dark Knight Returns.'"

"I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues."

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."

"We live in an age of innovation, where digital technology is providing solutions to problems before we've even realised we needed them. We see it every day as we find new ways to travel, eat and shop."

"This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age."

"The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence."

"I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around."

"'Dil Chahta Hai' is not the first film about friendship. 'Lakshya' is not the first film about war and coming of age."

"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."