Age Quote by Gail Sheehy

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

— John Quincy Adams

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off…

— Gail Sheehy

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one…

— Gail Sheehy

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up…

— Brian Grazer

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

— Candice Bergen

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so…

— Edward Hoagland

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men…

— Willa Cather

“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends”

— Ogden Nash

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

— Sydney J. Harris

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

— Mason Cooley

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the…

— Rohinton Mistry

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier