Age Quotes · Page 123

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

— Mary Jo Putney

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

As an actor I started off at a young age, but after a while certain maturity sets in.

— Esha Deol

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

— Armstrong Williams

Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

— Mark Waid

“it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for…

— Anonymous

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

— William Wordsworth

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

— Rollo May

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that…

— Saul Williams

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any…

— Samuel Johnson

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I?…

— Cherie Lunghi

I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but that's okay. Your peace of mind…

— Kumar Pallana

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you…

— Alan Sillitoe

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

— Ann Brashares

I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that…

— Anonymous

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going…

— Josh Cooke

I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a…

— Zoe Foster Blake

You know what I always say to people who say, "Oh, I wish I were 20 years younger"? I say, "Enjoy your…

— Fredric Brandt

Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the…

— Frances Hardinge

Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often…

— F. Sionil Jose

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…

— Michelle Alexander

Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is…

— Warren Farrell

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

— Dan Brown

I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences.

— Justine Bateman

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

— Prince Harry

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

— Betty Friedan

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things…

— Joe Klein

“The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.”

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

— Chilon of Sparta

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

— John Dryden

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

— Oscar Wilde

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.

— Sam Lloyd

A lot of times you see footage of yourself at a young age or things you don't remember and it does something…

— Quincy Brown

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

— Grover Norquist

There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

— Jean Louisa Kelly

I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.

— Allison Janney

I learned from an early age if you want something, go make it happen. It's not anyone else's job.

— Kelsey Plum