Top 100 Age Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best age quotes ever written, picked out of the full age archive on QuoteForever. You will find Anne Tyler, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt and Brandon Sanderson among them.

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1

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

2

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

3

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

4

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

5

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

6

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

7

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

8

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

9

My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

10

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

11

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

12

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

13

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

14

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

15

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

16

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

17

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

18

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

19

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

20

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

21

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

22

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

23

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

24

I've had an entrepreneurial mindset from a young age and I've been interested in companies and products that are a little bit different.

25

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

26

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

27

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

28

I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.

29

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

30

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

31

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

32

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

33

Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

34

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

35

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

36

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

37

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

38

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

39

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

40

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

41

I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

42

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

43

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

44

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

45

In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

46

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

47

I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.

48

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

49

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

50

The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.

51

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

52

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

53

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

54

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

55

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

56

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

57

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

58

The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.

59

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

60

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

61

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