Age Quotes · Page 240

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

— Caroline Norton

I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I never really get to play a character who's my own age. I kind of look a little bit younger for my…

— Emily Osment

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

— Susan Sontag

Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished.

— Magda Gerber

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

— Carrie Fisher

I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

— Damian Lewis

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

— Lytton Strachey

“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her…

— C.S. Lewis

Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at…

— Jameela Jamil

Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and…

— Francis Quarles

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said,…

— Olivia Hussey

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss…

— Colleen McCullough

My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the…

— Malcolm X

I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the…

— Philip Kitcher

As tennis players, we're ingrained from a young age to not show anything - tiredness, fear - or your opponent is going…

— Mardy Fish

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego…

— Andrew Davidson

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to…

— Stephen Merchant

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited…

— Mark Twain

For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring…

— Nikola Tesla

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said,…

— Rajneesh

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.…

— Anonymous

When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind…

— Trent Reznor

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a…

— Andre Maurois

Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.

— Lothar Matthaus

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

— Anne Sexton

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery…

— Nigel Calder

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

— Ralph Nader

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

— Walter Pater

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

— James Oppenheim

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

— James Thurber

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

— Paul Klee

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

— Yoko Shimomura

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

— Joseph Barbera

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

— Saib Tabrizi