Age Quotes

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

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Age
  • Present

• I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • World
  • Book
  • Kids

• There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

  

  Caleb Joshua Shomo Attack Attack!
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Digital

• It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.

  

  Max Stirner
  • Power
  • Friend
  • Religious

• I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Up
  • Important
  • Real

• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Nature
  • Sun
  • Crush

• I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Age
  • Mad
  • Underdeveloped

• And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Time
  • Age
  • Bored

• Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

  

  Anthony Hecht
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

  

  Alan Garner
  • Book
  • Age
  • Attitude

• 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

• Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Bad
  • Age
  • Reality

• It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Say
  • Miracles
  • Absurd

• Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.

  

  Democritus
  • Age
  • Flower

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Opportunities
  • Possibility
  • Exist

• You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Age
  • Rib

• 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

• My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Years

• 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

• I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Age
  • Light

• What works for one writer may not work for another. There are as many methods as there are writers. Were you to live to a grand old age, you would still never have enough time to try them all.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.

  

  John Prendergast
  • Time
  • Age

• Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

  

  Christopher Koch
  • Age
  • Poetry

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