Age Quotes

• Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

  

  Alan King
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age

• After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Age
  • Symbolism
  • Human Imagination

• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Life
  • Great
  • Age

• Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Relationship

• There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • Children
  • Age
  • Education

• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Age
  • Father

• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Time
  • Running
  • Youth

• Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Age

• From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

  

  John Pople
  • Important
  • Business
  • Small

• I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

  

  John Boyne
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Remember

• That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.

  

  Bo Derek
  • Age
  • Suffering
  • Sex

• Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • History
  • High

• I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Guy
  • House
  • Nice

• 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

• We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall functions of not just our planet, but our relationship with other planets.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Future
  • Control
  • Relationship

• Maxim is chilling out with age, like a good wine. He's a cross between me and Keith - when he's on stage he's got that theatrical edge, his commanding stature, people know he's in control of the mike.

  

  Leeroy Thornhill The Prodigy
  • Wine
  • Maxim
  • Chilling out

• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • Family
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

  

  Per Petterson
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Time
  • Age

• I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

  

  James McGreevey
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Age

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