Age Quotes

• I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • World
  • Age
  • Rest

• Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

  

  Eminem
  • Age

• If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Look

• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Kids
  • Violence
  • Eye

• If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • Job
  • Fear
  • Food

• I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • School
  • Age
  • Boy

• At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Time
  • Father
  • Age

• Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Mother
  • Sun
  • Numbers

• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • Today
  • College

• I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Age

• I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • People
  • Heart
  • Faith

• The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Age
  • Imagination
  • Military

• I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Family
  • Cool
  • Uncle

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Parents

• I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.

  

  Carol Berg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Age

• Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Growing

• Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Women
  • Hair
  • Glamour

• When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Age

• Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Earth
  • Alone
  • Dying

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