Age Quotes
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The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!
John Galsworthy
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.
Anne-Marie Duff
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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
William Steig
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When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
C. S. Lewis
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My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.
Amar'e Stoudemire
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
William Cowper
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I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.
Alex Sharp
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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't want to generalize, but the target audience for a lot of the YouTube people is fairly young - under the age of 16. You still want to know what those people are watching, because I think it's interesting, but sometimes it just makes you feel old.
Kumail Nanjiani
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I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
John Noble
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A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.
Jerry Della Femina
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My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed. They applied for a green card right away but it took us 12 years to get it, so for me, from the ages of 7 to 19.
Carlo Alban
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My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
R.Tripp Evans
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I remember watching the 'Iron Man' cartoons when I was younger. I remember reading the origin stories and some of the Silver Age stuff, and I read 'The Avengers' - 'The Defenders' and then 'The Avengers' - and that sort of brought me into 'Iron Man.'
Jon Favreau
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Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.
Elias Koteas
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It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
Neil Cavuto
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My age? It depends, madam, on your intentions.
Alfred Capus
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I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.
Becky Sauerbrunn
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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
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On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103: We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
Sarah Louise Delany