Age Quotes · Page 116

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Sylvia Plath

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

— Theodore Roosevelt

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

— Benjamin Franklin

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

— Lauren DeStefano

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

— Teresa Palmer

At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for…

— Mazie Hirono

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

— Arthur Smith

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten…

— Terry Pratchett

I used to get two buses to school, and you'd see more or less everyone in the city centre, so I kind…

— Danny Welbeck

I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were…

— Ledisi

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant,…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two…

— Reggie Jackson

You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat…

— Salma Hayek

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my…

— Matthew Carter

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant…

— Novalis

One thing to argue against Hillary Clinton being harmed by my saying on aging is that when you take Hollywood and television…

— Rush Limbaugh

Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,…

— John Forbes Nash

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual…

— Richard Flanagan

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant;…

— Abraham Lincoln

Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of…

— Ida Rolf

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…

— David Hume

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part…

— Barry Humphries

I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than…

— Giorgio Armani

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

— Alexander Hamilton

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

— Jerry West

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

— Dan Stevens

The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.

— Laurence Fishburne

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

— Thomas Fuller

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

— Noel Gallagher

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord…

— Sid Sriram

Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and…

— Bill Hicks

I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from…

— Ellie Simmonds

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

— David Lloyd George

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

— Sam Smith

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.

— Lena Headey

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

— William Fleming

I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.

— Brynn Cartelli

I remember when Kriss Kross came out! I was round about the same age, or maybe a couple of years younger.

— Jay Sean