Age Quotes · Page 241

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

— Edith Hamilton

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

— Claire Danes

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

— Benjamin Franklin

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

— Sophie Swetchine

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

— Douglas MacArthur

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

— Djuna Barnes

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

— Peggy Orenstein

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them…

— Rosemary M. Wixom

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the…

— Kate Bernheimer

The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem…

— Joseph Fort Newton

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry…

— Mike Davidson

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky,…

— Lord Byron

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to…

— Thomas Paine

The reason for my age being messed up in the records is that when I first appeared for the under-14 trials, I…

— Shahid Afridi

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if…

— Betty White

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of…

— Carl Jung

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about,…

— Jane Fonda

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the…

— Jaron Lanier

Maturity doesn't go with age. Life is a continuous learning process; a person moves on a higher level of maturity in every…

— Ces Peta

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the…

— Anonymous

Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world…

— Poul Anderson

“And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness…

— Lord Dunsany

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group…

— Thomas Pynchon

We can't judge someone by his age or experience, only for her abilities.

— Jessica Andrade

I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow.

— Marco Rubio

My mum was sold for $65 and I was sold for $260 - at the age of 13.

— Park Yeon-mi

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

— Allen Tate

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It's very flattering, I guess, to be considered so popular at a young age. It's kinda cool.

— Mischa Barton

Like I said in one of my songs, as a man, you're at your best when you're middle age.

— Benny the Butcher

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

— Coolio

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of…

— Emma Watson

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

— Alfred Bester

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in…

— Richard Corliss

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

— Pope Paul VI

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you…

— Kate Thornton

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

— John Bunyan