Age Quotes · Page 221

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

— Ralph Nader

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

— Aristotle

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

— Gerald Brenan

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

— Robert Ballard

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

— Isaac Hanson

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

— Anonymous

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

— Anonymous

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

— Herschel Walker

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention…

— Denise Van Outen

I think this is so important - what's not done well at education at every level - is helping kids find, as…

— Charles Koch

I considered wrestling at a young age, but I never could relate to any of the Divas. I have always been a…

— Nia Jax

He's 19 years of age, ... He's a fiery character and competitive. I think maybe when he sees things that are a…

— Fergie

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon…

— Mark Twain

'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings,…

— Trudi Canavan

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age,…

— George Andrew Olah

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror…

— Laurie Lee

I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving.…

— Michael Stipe

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old…

— Max Scheler

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…

— William Styron

I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform…

— George Benjamin

Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe…

— Newt Gingrich

“I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there…

— Jane Smiley

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction…

— Robert E. Howard

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

— Criss Jami

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

— Johnny Winter

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

— Albert Outler

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

— Richard Simmons

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

— Christian Louboutin

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

— Andre Gide

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

— Christine Baranski

For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

— Anonymous

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is…

— Dave Barry

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

— Saib Tabrizi

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

— Isaac Barrow

I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.

— Sebastian Coe

No man was every so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

— Jonathan Swift

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

— John Kricfalusi