Age Quotes
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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Lord Byron
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The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, and see us all move forwards on the basis of equality and partnership.
Martin McGuinness
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I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul
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Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.
Brooke Shields
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It's something I'd never wish anybody to have to go through, having a mother pass away at a young age. But it's made me realize that people need help.
Freddie Freeman
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There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.
Barack Obama
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She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
Sara Paretsky
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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Martin Amis
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Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
William Whewell
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For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.
Bonnie Hammer
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I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."
Quindon Tarver
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I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.
Mark Parker
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
E. M. Forster
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The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
William Graham Sumner
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Luis Bunuel
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Andrew Wyeth
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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
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Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
Eskinder Nega
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From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
Ansel Elgort
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The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
Martin Filler
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If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.
T. D. Jakes
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Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
Carolina Herrera