Age Quotes
9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to…
— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime…
— John Milton
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My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!
— Spike Milligan
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now…
— Louis Agassiz
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Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly…
— Allan McLeod Cormack
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She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the…
— Sara Paretsky
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must…
— Boethius
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I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to…
— Larry Gelbart
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All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of…
— Walter Russell
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I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me
— Elijah Wood
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The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon...
— John A. Keel
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Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.
— George Jean Nathan
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a…
— Joseph Priestley
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If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the…
— Katherine Jenkins
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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
— George Sand
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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer…
— Mark Twain
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You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for…
— Seymour Hicks
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My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I…
— Paulina Porizkova
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Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
— Richard Armour
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair…
— Rachel Bilson
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The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem…
— John A. Keel
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