Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of… — George Washington
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good… — Patrick Henry
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of… — Terry Pratchett
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of… — John Hume
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud
I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic. — Steve Earle
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I… — Laura Marling
I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting — Laura Marling
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the… — John Quincy Adams
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to… — Jacques Barzun
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how… — Fredric Jameson
I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at… — Homer
I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are. — Homer
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I hope so. God, I've practiced so much that I-you don't want to be worse five years later. I feel I have a great game… — Roger Federer
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows? — Monica Seles
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of… — John F. Kennedy
Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was… — Martin Denny

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