Age Quotes · Page 225

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

— Edward Abbey

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true…

— Samuel Johnson

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper…

— E. B. White

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

— James Simpson

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

— Jean-Louis Gassee

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

— Ogden Nash

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

— Alex Shakar

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's…

— Avril Lavigne

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and…

— Bob Seger

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter?…

— Cate Blanchett

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…

— David Gross

China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then…

— Derek Landy

The first time I'm nominated for an Emmy and I get to share it with my dad who introduced me to theater…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the…

— Kaya Scodelario

I'm getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there's no hysteria. I can go places…

— Bo Derek

I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I…

— Linda Ronstadt

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman…

— Anonymous

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…

— G. Stanley Hall

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to…

— Marie Rutkoski

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins,…

— Anonymous

There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew…

— Aya Cash

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility…

— Michel de Montaigne

I was on stage from an early age. It always felt to me like something I was born to do.

— Urmila Matondkar

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

— William D Tammeus

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

— Helen Fisher

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

— Patricia Penton Leimbach

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the pleasures of middle age is find out that one WAS right,and that one was much righter than one knew…

— Anonymous

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

— Amit Abraham

When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

— Angie Thomas

Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career…

— Andrew Zimmern

“I miss being the age when I thought I'd have my shit together by the time I was the age I am…

— kjforce

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

— John Zorn

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that…

— Helen Gurley Brown

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

— Thomas Browne

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

— Harold E. Varmus

I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.

— Martellus Bennett

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

— Miuccia Prada