Age Quotes

• Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Age
  • Environment

• It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it? And its a sort of over two years before any of the other recordings she did. That is her singing at the age of 16, and having written those extraordinary lyrics - about whatever they're about.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Why
  • Technology
  • Myself

• I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • God
  • Men
  • Sacrifice

• I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Country
  • Pleasure
  • Lasts

• People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I think if we were going to worry about teen pregnancy being glamorized, we should worry about shows like 'Teen Mom'. If people are going to want to have children at a young age because they see it on TV, I think that depends on the type of person you're dealing with.

  

  Chelsea Kane
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Life
  • Age
  • Rest

• My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Age

• Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-green glasses and Mighty Mouse would punch you in the face. It was the literature of the day for kids my age who were too bored with listening to 'Peter and the Wolf' on the record player.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Player

• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Country
  • Age
  • Father

• If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Small
  • College
  • Comedy

• Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • Serious
  • Studio

• Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.

  

  Ajay Mehta
  • Up
  • Father
  • Career

• From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Young
  • Lived

• Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Book
  • Words
  • Reading

• Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

  

  David Shields
  • Age

• There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.

  

  Jordi Molla
  • Movie
  • Small
  • Interesting

• Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • People
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Up
  • Age
  • Political

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