Age Quotes

• People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • People
  • Age
  • Intelligent

• One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Age

• Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

  

  William Brewster
  • Law
  • Church
  • Members

• Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Age
  • Value
  • Discipline

• The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Age
  • Present

• Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

  

  Jacquelyn Jablonski
  • Age

• Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • World
  • Army

• I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Age
  • Type
  • Machines

• After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

  

  Franco Harris
  • Age

• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • History
  • Society

• Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

  

  Fred Hoyle
  • Age

• Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

  

  John Milton
  • Time
  • Age
  • Gold

• When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Age

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Opportunities
  • Possibility
  • Exist

• I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Melody

• 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

• Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • World
  • Age

• I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Consciousness
  • Rage
  • Surviving

• There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Cutting
  • Youth
  • Quiet

• I think age is just a stupid number.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Numbers

• There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Important
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Architecture
  • Materials

• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • True
  • Age
  • Advice

• I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Age
  • Water

1

...

152

153

154

155

156

...

229

previous

next