Age Quotes
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
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'When will you stop this metaphysical nonsense?' said Edward wearily. 'But I suppose you’ve no other way to look at the matter, born as you were in an age of superstitious piety.'
Kage Baker
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
Laura Esquivel
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
Pat Roberts
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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
Jennifer Egan
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I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
China Machado
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If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!
Jameela Jamil
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
Eddie Marsan
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
Maisie Williams
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
Caitlyn Jenner
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To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
Eric Alterman
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell
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I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves - it was a terrible name - the Blue Zoots. We couldn't actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
Charles Duhigg
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My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.
Elliott Yamin
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
Adam Cohen
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I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
Debbie Gibson
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
Samantha Mumba
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I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.
Matthew James Thomas
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
Gail Collins
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If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'
Corrie Ten Boom
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
Anthony Browne
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener