Age Quotes
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
Jackson Pollock
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
Kate Williams
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
Florence Henderson
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
Daniel Barenboim
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
John Dawson Winter III
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
Naomi Scott
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Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.
Gabrielle Carteris
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We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
Nat Wolff
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
Narciso Rodriguez
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
Orison Swett Marden
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From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
Jason Priestley
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When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
Alan Alda
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
Magnus Carlsen
