Age Quotes · Page 178

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

— Jodie Foster

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

— Robert Martin

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

— George Jean Nathan

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

— William Shakespeare

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

— Oliver Herford

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore…

— Josh Hartnett

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

— Caryn Leschen

Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be…

— David Krieger

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they…

— Fidel Castro

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl…

— William Shakespeare

“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds…

— Mary Shelley

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I…

— Lois Lowry

We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism,…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A…

— Sissy Spacek

Funding care in the same way we fund pensions is the right approach for the Government to take, and the fairest way…

— Damian Green

...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy…

— Samuel Epstein

...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves;…

— John Yudkin

It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try…

— Eric Holder

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Yes, I'm not from a musical family, so I borrowed my friend's guitar and started writing songs for my school music project.…

— Maisie Peters

Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't…

— David Mitchell

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful…

— Carol Windley

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up…

— Gianluigi Buffon

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

— Edward Hirsch

Nicklaus at the 86 Masters. At his age, with his game at the time.

— Adam Jacobs

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

— Clint Eastwood

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at…

— Michael J. Fox

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

— Groucho Marx

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

— Jack White

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it…

— Liza Cody

I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.

— Carolyn Murphy

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

— Maya Angelou

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

— Gene Fowler

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

— Lev Grossman

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

— James Madison

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

— Ausonius

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

— Washington Irving

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

— Harriet Doerr