Age Quotes

• The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sarah Ferguson
  • Enough
  • Values
  • Conventional

• No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

  

  Bruce Barton
  • Age
  • Sex

• When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • People
  • Able
  • Differences

• I started producing in 1992 at the age of 15, when I found out music could be made with the help of a computer. I come from a musical family, but was always the family member not as good as the others. So once I found out I could release the music that was stuck inside my head through a computer, I knew I found what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

  

  Laidback Luke
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Good
  • Childhood
  • Ice

• I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Career
  • Path

• It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • True
  • Age

• For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

  

  Dawn French
  • Age

• Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

  

  Matthew Stewart
  • Up
  • Education
  • Irish

• I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

  

  Alan Zweibel
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

  

  John Lahr
  • American
  • Age
  • Dream

• I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics ... which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Hand

• You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • World
  • Movie
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • May
  • Age

• The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Age
  • Father

• Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • World
  • Expectations

• When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Age
  • Player

• I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Age
  • Present
  • Challenge

• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Age

• The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Book
  • Age
  • Attention

• I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • American
  • Age
  • Dark

• I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Women
  • Age
  • Car

• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Great
  • Age
  • Service

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