Age Quotes · Page 159

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

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Anita Loos

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

— Dorothy L. Sayers

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

— Herbert Hoover

As a 15-year-old teenage girl, I can attest to the fact that boys dominate most conversations between girls my age.

— Jazz Jennings

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

— Lord Chesterfield

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

— TS Eliot

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day…

— Lykke Li

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s…

— George Thorogood

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence…

— Walter Scott

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a…

— Tommy Cooper

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing…

— Beth Orton

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and…

— Jewel

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and…

— Sarah MacLean

Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from…

— Viggo Mortensen

I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested…

— Kristian Nairn

Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes,…

— Stella Chess

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior…

— James Laver

Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what…

— Thabo Mbeki

I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of…

— Fidel Castro

Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee…

— Louise Brealey

Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long…

— Scott Cunningham

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say…

— Howard Jacobson

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

— Dylan Thomas

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

— Will Durant

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

— Grace King

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the…

— Isabel Allende

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

— Adolf Hitler

I've been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master's exam at age 21.

— Abby Lee Miller

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

— Max Born

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

— Rachel Kushner

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

— Heinrich Boll

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

— Hesiod

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

— Gregory Corso

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

— Walker Percy

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

— William Butler Yeats

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

— Thomas Love Peacock

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

— P. J. Harvey

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

— Jessica Barden