Age Quotes · Page 208

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

— Nancy Mitford

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

— Theodor Svedberg

“Time smiled softly, faint yet sincere— not because the mirror had changed, but because time itself had.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

— Ava DuVernay

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

— Anonymous

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

— Dana Perino

My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point,…

— Alyssa Edwards

I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware…

— Alesha Dixon

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods'…

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool.…

— Frank O'Hara

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even…

— Chantal Sutherland

The spirit of the music and the energy that kicks back from the fans inspires me. To stay centered amidst the chaos…

— Paul Rodgers

There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No…

— Jonathan Capehart

Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago…

— Hal Holbrook

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many…

— Tom Hanks

One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he…

— Nhat Hanh

Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to…

— Malik Yusef

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal…

— Sydney Pollack

“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'.…

— Andrew Davidson

Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but…

— Rajneesh

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm someone who has grown physically at a later age, I was always one of the smallest players.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

— Julia Cameron

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

I started working at the age of 16 and since then my mother has been my guide. She has always advised me.

— Madalsa Sharma

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

— Dorothy Fuldheim

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

— M. H. Abrams

Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.

— Charles Duhigg

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

— Barbara Cartland

Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age.

— Deepak Chopra

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

— Elsie de Wolfe

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to…

— John Lanchester

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

— Junot Diaz

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad

— Amber Tamblyn

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

— Ethel Waters

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa