Age Quotes · Page 233

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

— Marshall McLuhan

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

— Anita Loos

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

— Christopher Lasch

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror…

— Rodney Dangerfield

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you…

— Gloria Naylor

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we…

— Anthony Browne

You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave…

— Ted Danson

All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within…

— Anonymous

My dad's a very funny man when he gets going. I remember clearly, from a young age, thinking, 'I want to be…

— Rebecca Front

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed…

— Lydia M. Child

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing…

— Guy Maddin

We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way…

— Anonymous

When Ricky Martin came in, even though it was kind of pop and dance, it caused an opportunity for the Latin rappers…

— B-Real

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes…

— Andrew Haigh

One of the beautiful gifts of dance is that you're so in tune with your body so early on. I was very…

— Jenna Dewan

My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away…

— Kate Jackson

I knew from a young age that I was attracted to guys. I didn't know if it was a phase... I didn't…

— Michael Sam

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their…

— Chelsea Clinton

The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age;…

— John Angell James

It seems that humans have been enjoying the taste and health benefits of blackberries for thousands of years. Gathered blackberries have been…

— Alice Roberts

The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in…

— Michael Marmot

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

— Dan Hill

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

— Torquato Tasso

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

— Derek Trucks

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

— Pope Paul VI

I started golfing through my dad. I started playing at a really young age.

— Kelly Rohrbach

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

— Brian Jacques

I was typecast in a mother's role very early in life. I didn't even reach a certain age. I was 20.

— Shefali Shah

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

— Mark Kurlansky

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

— Susie Orbach

Space flight's good for age; I have a lot less wrinkles up here. It's a good place to be as you get…

— Peggy Whitson

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and…

— Mia Wasikowska

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

— Marshall McLuhan

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

— Karl Pilkington

Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart…

— Bruce Grobbelaar

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

— Delta Goodrem