Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider… — Shimon Peres
I've gotten crankier in my old age. — Shirley MacLaine
I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. — William J. Clinton
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or… — John Dryden
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it. — Laurence J. Peter
Some people reach the age of sixty before others. — Unknown Author
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a… — Chiang Kai-shek
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is.… — Oswald Mosley
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak. — Edward Abbey
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru… — Edward Abbey
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.' — Edward Abbey
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the… — Edward Abbey
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological… — Edward Abbey
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks… — Edward Abbey
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure. — Zadie Smith
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating… — Samuel Adams
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton

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