Age Quotes · Page 244

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

— Mahmud Tarzi

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

— Edward Gibbon

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

— Glenn Frey

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

— Marshall McLuhan

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

— Neil Gaiman

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews…

— Sebastian Bach

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the…

— James Thurber

Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud…

— John Lennon

I'm very fortunate that R&B was where I first kind of learned my root in singing. I was able to do more…

— Gabby Barrett

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that…

— Josh Billings

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're…

— Jane Lynch

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and…

— James Lee Burke

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era…

— Mary Ritter Beard

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually…

— Oprah Winfrey

...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and…

— John Cheever

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we…

— Alice Hegan Rice

At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was…

— Gary Johnson

Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink…

— Alicja Bachleda-Curus

When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip…

— Raekwon

I remember aeons ago, when I was working for the Financial Times, I discovered that a male reporter the same age as…

— Cathy Newman

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection

— Amit Kalantri

We don’t use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.

— Julie Klausner

I started playing from the age of 11-12. I loved the game immediately but started playing the game seriously only in 1993-94.

— Shahid Afridi

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.

— Dawn Foster

A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.

— Anonymous

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

— Oriana Fallaci

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

— Hayao Miyazaki

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

— John Wagner

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

— Helen Hayes

I've won the world title - what I've dreamt of since the age of eight.

— Amir Khan

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

— Tom Peters

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

— Robert Schumann

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

— Billy Graham

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

— David Harbour

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

— Gordon Sinclair