Age Quotes · Page 121

I like to keep my voice going. I don't want it to lose its chops. You know, as you age, it's easier…

— Arnel Pineda

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

— Clare Boothe Luce

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

— Robert Lowell

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

— Freddie Mercury

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I have worked since I was 12 years old and started providing for my family in Holland by the age of 17…

— Yolanda Hadid

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

— David Lodge

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their…

— Kyle Chandler

This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic…

— Frederick Lenz

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where…

— Freya Stark

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would…

— Marilyn Monroe

The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under…

— H. L. Mencken

When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in.…

— Mandy Patinkin

“Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole…

— Angela Carter

I think the parts I was offered when I was younger, where I was asked to play that kind of slacker person,…

— Janeane Garofalo

Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement,…

— Gregory Palamas

“At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the…

— John Steinbeck

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You…

— Julianne Moore

Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always…

— Milan Kundera

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I was probably given a bit too much at an early age. I got some big moves and played in big games.

— Kyle Lafferty

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

— Anonymous

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

— Jean Paul

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

— Thaddeus Golas

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake…

— Robert Breault

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated I make it...

— Anonymous

Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

— Robbie Williams

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to…

— Helene Hanff

Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

— Niall Horan

We didn't leave the Stone Age because we ran out of rocks. We found a better way of doing things.

— Dean Phillips

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

— William Ralph Inge

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

“[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.”

— Sonia Sotomayor

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

— Mason Cooley

Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.

— Slowthai