Age Quotes

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

They say eyes clear with age.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

At my age flowers scare me.

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.

Age is very important in the entertainment industry.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.