Top 997 Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

It doesn't matter if you're 4 or 84; there's no age limit to what you can do.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

All diseases run into one, old age.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.

At the age of 18, I went to West Point, and I swore an oath to defend this Constitution, and I embraced a motto called duty and honor and country. And I've lived my life in accordance with those values ever since then.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Being seventy is not a sin.

When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'

When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

When I turned 21, I started losing weight - again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.

Who knows? I might retire at the age of 65.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

We are always the same age inside.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.