Age Quotes · Page 245

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

— Tom Petty

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

— Jack Nicholson

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

— George Herbert

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

— Mignon McLaughlin

Lots of great players, like Zidane and Figo, are about the same age as me.

— Rivaldo

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

— Robert Collyer

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

— Bob Hope

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in…

— Ian McDiarmid

While, legally, universal suffrage has been achieved for all undetained citizens over the age of 18, many people still find it difficult…

— Dawn Foster

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions…

— Ian Gillan

In today's day and age, one looks forward to experimenting and it pays off at times and at times it doesn't. This…

— Ankit Tiwari

When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age…

— Horace Walpole

My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So…

— Randy Rainbow

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of…

— Isaac D'Israeli

For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt…

— Bible

The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the…

— Edward Gibbon

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried…

— Martin Amis

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…

— Abraham Lincoln

Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the…

— Paul Driessen

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the…

— Tyson Chandler

Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders…

— Tyler Cowen

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

— Trenton Lee Stewart

I started working at a really young age, so I didn't even go to traditional high school.

— Jessica Barden

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

— Norman McLaren

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think as a driver your natural speed probably doesn't improve much from the age of 16, 17 to the rest of your career.

— George Russell

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

— Barbara Johnson

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

— Hume Cronyn

The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.

— P. T. Barnum

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

— Wilfred Owen

I have been fighting from a very young age. There is no fear there. It helped me cultivate the mindset of a…

— Ritika Singh

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age…

— Walter Raleigh

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

— Tommy Lee

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered,

— Gene Simmons

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

— Henrik Ibsen

In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.

— Martin Landau

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower