Age Quotes · Page 146

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

— Alice James

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

— Paul Cezanne

“A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.”

— Habeeb Akande

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

— T. Harv Eker

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

— George Santayana

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

— Hannibal

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

— Rick Pitino

I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as…

— Miranda July

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women,…

— Juvenal

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he…

— Lloyd Kaufman

Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to…

— Anonymous

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic…

— Nazanin Boniadi

As I have told many, the only goal my dad had for me was to keep me alive to reach the age…

— Dan Pena

Everyone can see that we went for young, talented players under the age of 24 or free transfers where we didn't have…

— David Wagner

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and…

— Joanna Trollope

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken…

— Richard Doll

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I…

— Willie Geist

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop…

— Steve Jobs

Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the…

— Travis Beacham

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than…

— Henry David Thoreau

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt…

— James Dwight Dana

There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own…

— Eleanor Brown

How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and…

— Sandra Bullock

I was a political junkie from an early age; I got a front row seat on something I love to do.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

— Erin Moran

I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is…

— Anthony Doerr

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating…

— Christian Hosoi

I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and…

— Kali Uchis

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

— Elliott Yamin

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

— Gene Perret

If you don't do a lot of stupid things while you're young, you won't have funny things to talk about when you're…

— Anonymous

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I…

— Jerry Reed

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

— Frederick Lenz

Age affects us all in the workplace. We all get a little less appealing as we get older, unfortunately.

— Sarah Lancashire

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

— Bonnie Wright

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of…

— Julian Barnes

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

— Jimmy Buffett

Advertising causes conflicts at exactly the most vulnerable age for children to be in conflict with parents.

— John Condry