Age Quotes

"People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything."

"It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism."

"With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal."

"Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo."

"What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing."

"In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters."

"Adults are obsolete children."

"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."

"Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces."

"I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. CIAO"

"I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me."

"It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?"

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."

"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own."

"I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age."

"The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over."

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."

"I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself."

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

"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."

"At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin."

"You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens."

"The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."

"My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system."

"If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick."

"In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future."

"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."

"Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age."

"Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria."

"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

"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."

"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."

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."

"Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay."

"As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot."

"I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends."

"Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair."

"I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends."

"When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'."

"You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol."

"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."

"The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified."

"I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age."

"My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately."