Age Quotes · Page 239

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

Being a comedian is probably the only job apart from undertaking that isn't age restricted.

— Peter Kay

“Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.”

— A.H. Septimius

My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in…

— Mandana Dayani

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

— Francisco de Quevedo

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

— Bram Stoker

From the age of seven, I was destined to be a legend, to be the world's most popular fighter.

— Naseem Hamed

I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

— Jack Gleeson

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as…

— Alberto Giacometti

Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age…

— Carrie Preston

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected…

— Elizabeth Warren

The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language,…

— Kate Bornstein

I was brought to films at such a young age. And I would see my parents breaking down stories at the dinner…

— Molly Gordon

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice…

— James Taylor

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use…

— Bill Viola

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will…

— Paul Bloom

Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those…

— Franny Armstrong

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults…

— Taylor Caldwell

In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way…

— Philip K. Dick

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat…

— Gloria Estefan

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should…

— Jane Ridley

Granddad was deported to a Siberian prison camp at the age of 15.

— Katie Melua

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

— Janelle Monae

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

— Leo Sayer

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

— John Lanchester

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

— Amber Tamblyn

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

— Junot Diaz

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

— Julie Kagawa

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

— Ethel Waters

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Barbara Cartland

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

— Charles Duhigg

'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

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

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

— Dorothy Fuldheim