Age Quotes

• Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Walking

• A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Say
  • Saying
  • Bishop

• There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Music
  • Age
  • Appreciation

• What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Reality

• We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

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

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Live
  • Needs
  • Baha

• Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Science

• I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Age
  • Singing

• Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.

  

  Patrick White
  • Age

• Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Learning

• I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Age
  • Independent
  • Young

• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • May
  • War
  • Single

• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Age

• At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Career

• It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • School
  • Age

• People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • Time
  • Age

• Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Care
  • Body
  • Investment

• I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

  

  Kristen Johnston
  • Age

• I've seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way, and there was no way she could undergo surgery at her age. Even though I was concerned for her, I didn't know at that time what she had to go through.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Feeling
  • Thoughts
  • Moment

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