Age Quotes · Page 102

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was…

— Rumaan Alam

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did…

— Colleen McCullough

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

— Bill Gates

I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.

— George Clarke

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

— Leon Krier

Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age.

— Deepak Chopra

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

— Barbara Cartland

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in…

— Ian Caldwell

I never played against my own age, and I was one of the best players. That's when I would get really nervous,…

— Connor McDavid

Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all…

— John Stuart Mill

There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight.…

— Damian Lewis

I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your…

— Sabirul Islam

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age…

— Ashley Scott

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without…

— Robin S. Sharma

I love Bill Murray, he's the same age as me. I don't want to take any roles away from Bill, but I…

— Paul Raci

I think Anarky's age is right now. He looks like a street protester. He looks like Anonymous. He's like one of these…

— Eric Holmes

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things…

— Donald Michael Kraig

What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that…

— Max Planck

I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and…

— William Stanley Jevons

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we…

— Will Self

Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of…

— Naomi Klein

I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At…

— Hokusai

Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.

— Charles Duhigg

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

— Elsie de Wolfe

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad

— Amber Tamblyn

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

— Junot Diaz

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to…

— John Lanchester

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

— Ethel Waters

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

— Anonymous

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

— Dana Perino

I'm someone who has grown physically at a later age, I was always one of the smallest players.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

— Julia Cameron

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

— M. H. Abrams

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

— Dorothy Fuldheim

I started working at the age of 16 and since then my mother has been my guide. She has always advised me.

— Madalsa Sharma

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway