Age Quotes · Page 189

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

— Saul Bellow

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of…

— Jonathan Swift

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

— Anonymous

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

— Victoria Williams

Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don't…

— Ali Wong

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

— Kim Edwards

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

— Bill Vaughan

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know…

— Michael Leunig

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no…

— Sela Ward

Vir made his first appearance at age four months. The more he gets exposed to the people and the life that I…

— Mandira Bedi

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming…

— Amber Heard

I remember recording with Johnny Sandlin at his place right outside Muscle Shoals and he turned me on to a lot of…

— Derek Trucks

Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going…

— Elena Kagan

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more…

— Horace

Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college…

— Mara Wilson

We've got two semi-professional leagues; we've got many other leagues, more coaching opportunities for youngsters. You never had that when I was…

— Steph Houghton

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,…

— Anonymous

I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't…

— Elana Meyers

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and…

— John Mortimer

The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the…

— Paul Goodman

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

— Natalia Vodianova

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

— Ann Landers

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

— Molly Bloom

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by habit.

— Anonymous

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

— Jan Karon

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

— L. Ron Hubbard

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

— Joseph Joubert

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

— Sky Ferreira

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

— Robert Breault

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

— Nancy McKeon

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

— Jeremy Rifkin

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

— Henry Blodget

“We are in the age of enlightenment of what environmental radiation is and what it is doing to all life on Earth.”

— Steven Magee