Age Quotes · Page 133

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I grew up loving country music from a young age and wanted to sing more than I wanted to sit in school.

— Carly Pearce

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

— Matthew Mercer

“In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

— Goodman Ace

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

— Whit Stillman

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

— Tom Hodgkinson

You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.

— Mitch Joel

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I…

— Freya Ridings

It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater…

— Audra McDonald

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among…

— Johnny Cash

This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

— Michael G. Rubin

Champagne was the first drink I tried when I was turned the drinking age, and whenever there's a big celebration, it's always…

— Ajla Tomljanovic

Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths…

— Sheri S. Tepper

I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if…

— Sarah J. Maas

One of the guiding beliefs of our consuming age is that we are all free and independent individuals. That we can choose…

— Adam Curtis

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the…

— Peter Drucker

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed…

— Cecelia Ahern

TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been…

— Ellen Hopkins

Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our…

— George Vaillant

I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We hope girls are inspired to start playing at a younger age and try to get to a World Cup themselves.

— Steph Houghton

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the…

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

— Gautam Adani

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

— Ben Marcus

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

— Jared Kushner

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try…

— Woody Allen

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and…

— Anonymous

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color…

— Catherine Malandrino

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

— John Dryden

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

— Annette Bening

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

— C. S. Lewis

As a kid, I got exposed to city government at an early age. I'm sure that rubbed off on me.

— Kevin Faulconer

I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

— Alain de Botton

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

— Satchel Paige