Age Quotes

• People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• 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

• Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Nature
  • Learning
  • Differences

• I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

  

  Carol Windley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

  

  Arthur Goldberg
  • Power
  • Age
  • Law

• Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Age
  • Challenge

• Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Keep
  • Fair
  • Golden Rule

• I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

  

  R. C. Sherriff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Present

• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

  

  William Cowper
  • Giving
  • Birth
  • Heard

• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Sadness
  • Bars
  • Guitarist

• I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Parents

• My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.

  

  George Muller
  • Children
  • Money
  • Father

• Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Player
  • Retirement
  • Retiring

• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Long
  • Cold
  • Missing

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

  

  Bernard Barton
  • Age
  • Sex

• I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • America
  • Age
  • Career

• The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Opportunities
  • Possibility
  • Exist

• ... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.

  

  C. Wagner
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Fall
  • Talk
  • Girls

• I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.

  

  Booker T. Jones Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • Enough
  • Jobs
  • Lessons

• It looked as if a night of dark intent. Was coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water broken. Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • Night
  • Light

• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Believe
  • Listening
  • Gratitude

• There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Age
  • Confidence

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