Age Quotes · Page 173

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

— Charlie Brooker

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had…

— Darcey Bussell

“Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of…

— Mustafa Ali

It's not as if people don't know my real age or anything. It's like you're watching a college drama where someone's playing…

— Hiten Tejwani

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel like a lot of artists, when they're on their fourth record, they're perceived as the old guys. At least in…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of…

— Diane Keaton

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it…

— Anonymous

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a…

— Suzanne Farrell

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30;…

— Michael Phelps

Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they…

— Al-Ghazali

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not…

— Jack Kerouac

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers'…

— Larry Harvey

Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage…

— Johnny Depp

Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we…

— Scoot McNairy

There is a growing sentiment in America that regular saving should be ignored-that the government will take care of people and give…

— George Matthew Adams

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male…

— Brit Marling

I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

— Paolo Nutini

Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.

— Ethan Slater

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

— Paul Harris

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

— Molly Quinn

The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.

— Heinrich Rohrer

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

— Steven Spielberg

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

— Craig Finn

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

— Bappi Lahiri

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

— Connie Chung

In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years…

— David Suchet

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

— Kirk Douglas

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

— Jack Nicholson