Age Quotes
9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
— William Steig
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I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
— Roddy Doyle
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I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
— Roddy Doyle
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
— Abdul Kalam
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Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out…
— Indira Gandhi
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It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped,…
— Larry Niven
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out…
— Alan Sillitoe
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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
— Robert E. Lee
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful…
— John Steinbeck
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To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to…
— Richard Meier
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As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this…
— Nelson Mandela
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My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
— Kim Wilde
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I think I work hard. I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age, and I…
— Derrick Rose
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The way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the League? Why can't I be the best…
— Derrick Rose
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
— Anne McCaffrey
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Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter…
— Imelda Marcos
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The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we…
— Walter Wriston
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially…
— Walt Whitman
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
— Arnold Bennett
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to…
— Horace Mann
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