--- title: "24 Great Age Quotes by 24 authors" description: "Browse 24 Great Age quotes by 24 authors. Discover the best Great Age sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/tom-peters-967_age_we-are-no-doubt-in-the-great-age-of-the_2142635.png" --- > [We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-peters/we-are-no-doubt-in-the-great-age-of-the-brand/) [Tom Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-peters/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/tom-peters-967_age_we-are-no-doubt-in-the-great-age-of-the_2142635.png) > [I think it would be great if there were no age limit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-abdul/i-think-it-would-be-great-if-there-were-no-age-limit/) [Paula Abdul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-abdul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0d/paula-abdul-8445_age_i-think-it-would-be-great-if-there-were_779913.jpg) > [You can be great at any age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kishore-bansal/you-can-be-great-at-any-age/) [Kishore Bansal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kishore-bansal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/kishore-bansal-2468_age_you-can-be-great-at-any-age-1352622_1352622.jpg) > [A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/a-great-age-of-literature-is-perhaps-always-a-great-age-of/) [Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba4/ezra-pound-1208_age_a-great-age-of-literature-is-perhaps-alw_41624.png) > [“We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferris/we-stand-at-the-onset-of-a-great-age-of-adventure-and-always-shall-so/) [Timothy Ferris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-ferris/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffb/timothy-ferris-57012_adventure_we-stand-at-the-onset-of-a-great-age-of_2281200.jpg) > [It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-flinn/it-would-be-so-great-to-have-someone-my-own-age-to-talk-to-even-if-it/) [Alex Flinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-flinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/alex-flinn-1947_age_it-would-be-so-great-to-have-someone-my_1844394.png) > [Twenty-seven is a great age to play. There is so much ahead of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafael-van-der-vaart/twenty-seven-is-a-great-age-to-play-there-is-so-much-ahead-of-you/) [Rafael van der Vaart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rafael-van-der-vaart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ba/rafael-van-der-vaart-18099_age_twenty-seven-is-a-great-age-to-play-ther_2047298.jpg) > [Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/age-only-matters-when-one-is-aging-now-that-i-have-arrived-at-a-great/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/204/pablo-picasso-552_age_age-only-matters-when-one-is-aging-now-t_1049865.jpg) > [We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/we-must-produce-a-great-age-or-see-the-collapse-of-the-upward/) [Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/448/alfred-north-whitehead-836_age_we-must-produce-a-great-age-or-see-the-c_517242.png) > [Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-rickles/sex-is-great-but-when-you-get-to-be-my-age-you-ve-got-to-pace-it-a/) [Don Rickles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-rickles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/don-rickles-1705_age_sex-is-great-but-when-you-get-to-be-my-a_1636355.png) > [When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-kagawa/when-i-wrote-my-first-story-all-the-characters-were-teenagers-because/) [Julie Kagawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-kagawa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/julie-kagawa-241_age_when-i-wrote-my-first-story-all-the-char_453607.png) > [“Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/looking-for-truth-is-not-some-kind-of-spazzy-free-for-all-not-even/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37e/elizabeth-gilbert-131_truth_looking-for-truth-is-not-some-kind-of-sp_2263136.jpg) > [As soon as you hit 40, you have to defend your right to be that great age,' and still working in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tess-daly/as-soon-as-you-hit-40-you-have-to-defend-your-right-to-be-that-great/) [Tess Daly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tess-daly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/tess-daly-5051_age_as-soon-as-you-hit-40-you-have-to-defend_881484.jpg) > [We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wyndham-lewis/we-are-the-first-men-of-a-future-that-has-not-materialized-we-belong/) [Wyndham Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wyndham-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/wyndham-lewis-7767_age_we-are-the-first-men-of-a-future-that-ha_2408419.png) > [The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-most-curious-social-convention-of-the-great-age-in-which-we-live/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/082/anonymous-1_age_the-most-curious-social-convention-of-th_1039827.jpg) > [I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/i-grew-up-in-the-prolonged-survival-of-the-great-age-of-the-horse/) [Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/paul-engle-16507_age_i-grew-up-in-the-prolonged-survival-of-t_574580.jpg) > [Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kurlansky/let-s-face-it-the-19th-century-really-was-the-great-age-of-the-novel/) [Mark Kurlansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kurlansky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/mark-kurlansky-1988_19th-century_let-s-face-it-the-19th-century-really-wa_2569769.png) > [The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/the-world-s-great-age-begins-anew-the-golden-years-return-the-earth/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/900/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_age_the-world-s-great-age-begins-anew-the-go_2502450.jpg) > [I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/i-believe-that-there-was-a-great-age-a-great-epoch-when-man-did-not/) [D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/d-h-lawrence-426_age_i-believe-that-there-was-a-great-age-a-g_709301.png) > [The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/the-great-age-of-the-earth-will-appear-greater-to-man-when-he/) [Jean-Baptiste Lamarck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baptiste-lamarck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d75/jean-baptiste-lamarck-27412_age_the-great-age-of-the-earth-will-appear-g_3133272.jpg) > [“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo/no-matter-how-old-you-are-now-you-are-never-too-young-or-too-old-for/) [Pablo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/pablo-18784_age_no-matter-how-old-you-are-now-you-are-ne_2425791.jpg) > [“Like Princes crowned they bore them-- Like Demi-Gods they wrought, When the New World lay before them In headlong fact and thought.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudyard-kipling/like-princes-crowned-they-bore-them-like-demi-gods-they-wrought-when/) [Rudyard Kipling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudyard-kipling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d33/rudyard-kipling-527_elizabeth-ii_like-princes-crowned-they-bore-them-like_149252.png) > [“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-henry-breasted/with-the-consolidation-under-menes-it-was-already-an-institution-of/) [James Henry Breasted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-henry-breasted/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/james-henry-breasted-20001_quote_with-the-consolidation-under-menes-it-wa_566272.jpg) > [“Nice people who are beginning to live to a great age - as it were - react with such revulsion to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-m-banks/nice-people-who-are-beginning-to-live-to-a-great-age-as-it-were-react/) [Iain M. Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-m-banks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe6/iain-m-banks-3729_nice-people_nice-people-who-are-beginning-to-live-to_1430972.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/great-age/#itemlist", "name": "Great Age Quotes", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Peters" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-peters/we-are-no-doubt-in-the-great-age-of-the-brand/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/tom-peters-967_age_we-are-no-doubt-in-the-great-age-of-the_2142635.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/tom-peters-967_age_we-are-no-doubt-in-the-great-age-of-the_2142635.png", "url": 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Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.\" 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote \"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\", and 49 years old when he wrote \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote \"The Hunger Games\" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote \"The Cat in the Hat\". 40) Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. 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Giants with giants, wits with wits engage, And England-England-England takes the breath Of morning, body and soul, till the great Age Fulfills in one great chord:--Elizabeth!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rudyard Kipling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudyard-kipling/like-princes-crowned-they-bore-them-like-demi-gods-they-wrought-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d33/rudyard-kipling-527_elizabeth-ii_like-princes-crowned-they-bore-them-like_149252.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d33/rudyard-kipling-527_elizabeth-ii_like-princes-crowned-they-bore-them-like_149252.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d33/rudyard-kipling-527_elizabeth-ii_like-princes-crowned-they-bore-them-like_149252.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Like Princes crowned they bore them-- Like Demi-Gods they wrought, When the New World lay before them In…” — Rudyard Kipling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at the dawn of the Old Kingdom already brought to the office a prestige and an exalted power, demanding the deepest reverence of the subject whether high or low. 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