Age Quotes · Page 155

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

— Michael Douglas

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

— John Milton

I tend to despise individuals who say that age is just a number, It's clearly just a three letter word.

— Gian Lewis

“It's terrible to be alone and frightened at any age, but I think it's worse when you're old.”

— Stephen King

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

— Betty Friedan

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.

— Michael J. Knowles

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have…

— Matt Blunt

'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation…

— Jack Wagner

There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one…

— Theo van Doesburg

The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In…

— William Wordsworth

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's…

— Lucinda Williams

Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Our cinema is coming of age, and people are realizing we need to tell different stories differently and in fresh manner and…

— Pankaj Kapur

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips…

— Julian Baggini

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to…

— Rooney Mara

In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -…

— Laura Owens

“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it…

— William L. Shirer

With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began…

— Anne Finger

We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not…

— Anne Lamott

I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then…

— D. H. Lawrence

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

— Homer

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

— Tyrone Mings

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

— Young Buck

I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.

— Amir Khan

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

— Amine

I learned at a very young age that my parents were undocumented.

— Diane Guerrero

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

— Diane de Poitiers

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

— Karl Kraus

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

— Ruby Bridges

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn…

— Joseph Joubert

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

— Brent Scowcroft

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's…

— Jeff Bridges

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

I advise my daughters to moisturize, moisturize, moisturize, but worrying too much about the way you look will age you.

— Peggy Lipton