Age Quotes · Page 175

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

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

— John Lanchester

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

— Elsie de Wolfe

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Charles Duhigg

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

— Barbara Cartland

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going…

— Stella Young

Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've…

— Helen Thomas

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you…

— Ashley Young

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the…

— Neville Cardus

I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final…

— Amanda McKerrow

I was this big, heavy kid - nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds…

— Andy Ruiz Jr

One of the hardest parts about developing leukemia at age 22 was how restrictive it was: My treatments left me highly susceptible…

— Suleika Jaouad

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For…

— Bram Stoker

Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his…

— Fidel Castro

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with…

— Bertolt Brecht

At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion…

— Amanda de Cadenet

People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as…

— Peace Pilgrim

“You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and…

— Brian Lamb

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

— Bill Gates

I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.

— George Clarke

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

— Leon Krier

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

— Benjamin Franklin

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did…

— Colleen McCullough

Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was…

— Rumaan Alam

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

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Djuna Barnes

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

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

— Edith Hamilton

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

— Kate Garraway

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

— Salvador Dali

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

— Henry Vaughan

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

— Jerome Bruner