Age Quotes · Page 215

“Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year”

— Tim Seeley

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]

— Scott McNealy

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

— Itzhak Perlman

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

— Theodore Roethke

I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

— Bill Hader

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

— Jerome K. Jerome

I hope to inspire at least a few women to follow their dreams no matter what age they are.

— Bhumika Chawla

I came from Charlton, and no disrespect to them, but I was there from the age of nine and going to Chelsea…

— Scott Parker

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at…

— Andre Agassi

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica…

— Michael Buckley

By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease…

— Deepak Chopra

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their…

— Napoleon Hill

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact…

— Marvin Hamlisch

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my…

— Andy Kaufman

It's all about, in wrestling you're taught this at a young age: if you get taken down, you don't let the momentum…

— Chad Mendes

I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as…

— Deborah Ann Woll

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an…

— John Legend

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young…

— Studs Terkel

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images…

— Gaston Bachelard

Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy…

— Narendra Modi

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where…

— Barack Obama

Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around…

— David Moody

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

— Dave McCary

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

— Bahá'u'lláh

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

— Paul Fussell

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who…

— Gina Schock

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.

— Billie Burke

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

— Robert Frost

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real…

— David Lereah

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at…

— Jerry Hall

Voices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus.

— Robert Godfrey

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' from an early age, 'Laverne & Shirley.'

— Jessica St. Clair

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,

— Celia Imrie

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

— Orhan Pamuk

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

— Billy Casper

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

— Sarah Ruhl