Age Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

— Jacob Burckhardt

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps…

— Judith Viorst

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

— Han Suyin

Can't quite believe it after being so used to being musically invisible for so long. It makes me feel very warm to know that…

— Vashti Bunyan

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years…

— Freya Stark

“A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written. A good…

— Bruce Springsteen

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they…

— Max Stirner

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing…

— David Bowie

“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...”

— Claire North

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black…

— Jimi Hendrix

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

— Bruce Springsteen