Age Quotes · Page 213

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

— Kitty Carlisle

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

— Anonymous

At a very young age, I realized that with my disability, I could cry or laugh.

— Josh Blue

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

— William Feather

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

— Tyler Farr

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

— Thomas Jefferson

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a…

— Dave Pelzer

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

— Pico Iyer

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women…

— Amanda Donohoe

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your…

— Janet Fitch

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the…

— Alan Blinder

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with…

— Paul Horn

If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask…

— Jack Handey

In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be…

— Michelle Dean

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life…

— Henry Ford

How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead…

— May Sarton

School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of…

— Walter E. Williams

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a…

— Chris Cornell

I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing,…

— Leeza Gibbons

I was attracted to cricket at a very young age. My father's elder brother Akram Siddiq saw the passion for cricket in…

— Babar Azam

I don't think there will ever come a time that I can't learn from my parents, but there's something wonderful about getting…

— Holly Branson

I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things…

— Jason Diamond

For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this, the Dispensation of the Fulness [sic] of Times. He, together…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at…

— Mike Greenberg

There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.

— Arjun Kapoor

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

— Richard Armour

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

— John Maynard Keynes

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

— Charles Sumner

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

— Yann Martel

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in…

— Anatole Broyard

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

— Barack Obama

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

— Anonymous

If you have strong desire to learn, the age nothing binding you.

— Mak_786

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

— Jean de La Fontaine

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

— Anonymous

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

— Saddam Hussein

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

— Dan Hill