Age Quotes · Page 228

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

— Bill Watterson

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

— Ogden Nash

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden.

— Jonathan Petit Senn

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

— Helen Hayes

I grew up in a position-less age of basketball, I guess you want to call it.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

— Oscar Wilde

Any female of any age, anyone sitting on that couch, is going to relate to some Bella family member.

— Nikki Bella

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured…

— Jonah Hill

Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins -…

— Wes Streeting

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people…

— Robin Ince

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a…

— Laura Marling

Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a…

— Letitia James

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds,…

— Samuel Smiles

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and…

— William Blake

Indeed, there were times when it was quite worrying that after hitting a certain age, you wouldn't hear from a lot of…

— Christine Bottomley

“The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the…

— Michael Chabon

There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…

— Anonymous

I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do…

— Alexandra Adornetto

Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would…

— Clint Eastwood

Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that…

— Danny Masterson

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether…

— Samuel Johnson

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who…

— Xenophon

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

— Mary Gaitskill

I started bartending at a very young age living in New York. Bartending was my survival job.

— Ariana Madix

I learned to ski from the age of three, which is something I really want to pass on to my son, Rudy.

— Edith Bowman

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

— Armistead Maupin

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

— Terry Pratchett

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

— Ronnie Corbett

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

— Robert Byrne

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

— Claude Debussy

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

— Brett Ratner

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

— Norman Douglas

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

— Warren Buffett

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a…

— Colin Trevorrow

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

— Philip K. Jason

But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

— Sara Teasdale

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It isn't often I get a part that enables me to play someone from the age of 13 up to 81.

— Prunella Scales