Age Quotes

• I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Paris

• A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Age

• I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• 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

• We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart James Stewart.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Age
  • Mediocrity
  • Stature

• For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Together
  • Age

• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Time
  • Hero
  • Harder

• Larry's grandmother has died at age 104

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Age
  • Grandmother

• Bond is actually my dream role. Only because it was the film I watched with my grandfathers and father from a very young age, and it would be the only way that I could actually repay them with my art form for what they've done for me.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Father

• It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Age

• There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Children
  • Age

• To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin, this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Age

• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Age
  • Soul
  • Baha

• I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • Consideration

• Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Writing
  • Responsibility

• I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • Men
  • Leader

• Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

  

  Peter Jurasik
  • Mother
  • Age

• There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Proof
  • Old Man
  • Despicable

• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  

  Lawrence Clark Powell
  • Work
  • Children
  • Reading

• Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Good
  • Today
  • Past

• It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

  

  Will Self
  • Comfort
  • Deserve
  • Savagery

• The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Great
  • Age
  • Present

• I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • Age

• We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

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