Top 415 Ages Quotes

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation – yet they did. Change does happen.

Like a Star’ has a very simple melody, and when you play it, it’s only about three notes for ages, and it’s quite boring. But when you hear the chords, the chords are sort of different than the melody, and it’s pulling it around and making it mean something else.

I’m not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I’m not really interested in that.

Simon Critchley’s ‘The Book of Dead Philosophers’ – it’s a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

You can’t possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you’re doomed.

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

I don’t think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go – just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance – what you will find is that women’s voices are not taken seriously.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a small fishing village into a profitable whaling industry. Whale oil was liquid gold to these sea-faring folk.

Between the ages of 8 and 12, all I wanted to read were ‘Star Wars’ books.

We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to 16, I was mostly convinced that I was just going through ‘phases.’ I ran away mentally, especially at night with access to the Internet and the labyrinth of anonymous communications.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

What helps with aging is serious cognition – thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you’re here?

People have known of Shakespeare’s homosexuality down through the ages.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

My main vice is Herta frankfurters – it’s amazing that they stay fresh for ages. They’re not very healthy, but they are my treat.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I bid you goodbye and take my leave.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Not working makes you ill, sad, depressed. It ages you.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that’s come through all that I’ve come through, still standing, it’s amazing.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

I lost $4 million of other people’s money between the ages of 24 and 26.

Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There’s hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London’s texture.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone’s depressed.

The truth is that every fanbase has its ‘toxic’ side, and that’s because every fanbase has a huge variety of ages, a huge variety of opinions, and a huge variety of maturities.

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.

Everything ‘Atonement’ does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same – dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits – the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don’t know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely, profoundly, preciously grateful for every smile, squeal, and – yes – diaper blowout.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman’s ego.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It’s beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can’t see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.

Decision by decision, Justice Ginsburg reaffirmed the ideals of our Constitution and our shared values of fairness, equality, and opportunity. Her judicial opinions on voting rights, gender discrimination, and same-sex marriage made this country stronger and will continue to ring out through the ages.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

People tend to think of fairy tales as ‘archetypal.’ They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Ive met people of all abilities and all ages. The groups are split accordingly; advanced groups are made up of swimmers keen on longer distances, intermediates who use swimming as part of their exercise routine, while many of the beginners havent even tried front crawl before.

When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology – that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.