Age Quotes: Embracing Wisdom, Embracing Life’s Journey, and Embracing Every Stage
Embracing the Beauty of Age
Age is a remarkable journey filled with experiences, growth, and wisdom. It is a testament to the passage of time and the continuous evolution of our lives. In this article, we celebrate the beauty of age through a collection of quotes that honor the wisdom, resilience, and grace that come with each passing year.
Age is not merely a number; it is a reflection of the lessons learned, the memories made, and the experiences that shape us. It is an opportunity to embrace the fullness of life, appreciate the journey we have traveled, and look forward to the chapters yet to unfold.
Embracing the Wisdom of Time: Quotes to Inspire and Reflect
Throughout history, philosophers, writers, and individuals who have embraced the wisdom of age have shared their insights, reflections, and perspectives through their words. Their quotes capture the essence of the beauty of age, the value of life’s experiences, and the wisdom that comes with the passage of time. Below, we present a collection of inspiring age quotes that will resonate with your heart, ignite self-reflection, and remind you of the extraordinary power of embracing every stage of life.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
I have to have my sunscreen. It’s so important for wrinkle reduction but also to protect you from the sun. Whatever skin type one might have, whatever age they’re at, I think sunscreen is key.
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.
Skin care is massively important to me. My mom instilled that into my brain from a pretty young age.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
I’ve been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it’s difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone’s eyes are on you, it’s difficult.
Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.
I’m not getting any younger. You’re not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.
I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
How young can you die of old age?
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‘Dang, she looks good for her age!’
I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It’s such an essential part of what I do in the production process. I wouldn’t be Kygo today without those piano lessons.
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
When I began running at the age of 10, I didn’t have the diet athletes need. It was just rice and vegetables. Every day.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Live your life and forget your age.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don’t think there’s any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry – if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
Education is the best provision for old age.
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age – less than a year old – and grew up and was educated in the West.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it’s related primarily to the obesity problem.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs – you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through – but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.
Age, they say, is only important if you’re cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
To be told that one can be dependent on one’s parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like ‘An American Werewolf in London’ in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
Some age, others mature.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
When I was 16, I got ‘Jamon, Jamon.’ Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.
I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it’s important how clothing looks, but it’s equally important how it feels on your skin.
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and ‘my word you do look well’.
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
People in love don’t see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It’s about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don’t think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
I would love a family. I’m at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.’
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
I’m 16, and I’m still self-conscious. Everyone is at this age.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it’s a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn’t move, and I was forced to think a lot.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the ’90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
I started studying piano at the age of four.
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn’t.
Old age is no place for sissies.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
I grew up going to a school where there weren’t a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young age, has sensitized me to race.
I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
I began by listening to my mother’s collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’
To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon… I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.
If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn’t matter; age, colour, c’mon!
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature’s way of tattooing. It’s natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
I’ve been dancing since the age of two. I don’t really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It’s a cool age.
I like films and I have been watching films from a young age. So, making films happened to be a natural progression.
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, ‘That image doesn’t fit you.’
No lie ever reaches old age.
From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn’t bother me.
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.
When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he’d been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.
I’ve loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother’s a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
We may think we live in a digital age. But there are some things technology will never replace.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, ‘I want to do the best I know how to do every day.’
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
Old age is a woman’s hell.
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I’ve never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Well, we all age, but I’d been taking herbal supplements for a long time.
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It’s a ticking time bomb – we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer’s – which disproportionately affects women and minorities.
As for whether I am a ‘new age guru’, I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.
Adults are obsolete children.
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn’t bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Never guess a woman’s age. Never guess a woman’s weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she’s due.
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn’t super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you’re younger than you thought you were.
I was born in Niagara Falls. The high school I went to had 500 kids and the school didn’t have a lot of money. The town itself was whatever. It was a good place to grow up. It was a blessing that I grew up there, because I got to find myself at a young age.
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
In this digital age, it doesn’t really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.
I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor… but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.
For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
I started rapping at the age of 12. That’s when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.
It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let’s just say, a major gut problem, and they’re saying ‘hang on there Dervla, don’t eat your chocolate cake at dessert.’
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
The fact that I’ve lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age… it’s natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was ‘time pass.’ Would time not have passed if he hadn’t watched the film?
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
I prefer to put myself in an environment that’s further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don’t have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
I think it’s nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It’s a fair exchange.
The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it’s normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, ‘I want to stay at home a little bit more,’ but it’s only the moment.
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Painting was always something I thought I’d do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away suddenly at the age of 50 and it made me realise that if I put off doing stuff until I retire, I might not ever get there.
Hope is not a matter of age.
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we’re faced with an information age.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
I’m not one of those New Age types that believe ‘it’s all meant to be’ and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.
I think that the Information Age is great, but there’s a downside to it obviously as well, and it’s that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it’s sad that so many people will believe it.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I’ve probably known since then that I want to be a professional actor.
I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
I don’t care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father’s ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you’re staring into the grave.
I think love can happen at any age… it has no age.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn’t trade it for anything!
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they’ve got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we’re going to bomb them into the stone age.
I’m the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt – how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
A grownup is a child with layers on.
With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I’ve always had a great interest in religion, but I’ve never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine.
Old age is the verdict of life.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.
At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft – the Goldman Oil Supply Company.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety – they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it’s a ‘super’ man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
People say women shouldn’t have long hair over a certain age, but I’ve never done what everyone says.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can’t really control life – so you’d better live it while it’s here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That’s because we become what we think.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, Why? Why do that?
When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone’s life.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
I’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.
You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
I don’t want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I’m not interested.
One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces.
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
At a young age I thought, ‘Wow, that fiddle thing, that’s pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums… ‘ They were Indian drums. And I was saying, ‘But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.’
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after – I have arthritis – and money is a factor.
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I would automatically groove to it.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
I strive for perfection, but I’m not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
I think the cruise industry has come of age. And older people my age are attracted to the cruise ship industry. And they are booming right now, and all over the world they are booming. And I think they’re for the golden oldies, and there are more and more of them around.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
There is no age limit to wrestling.
In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.
Age considers; youth ventures.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It’s kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?
Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
At the age of 31, I realized, ‘Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.’
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
I had the chance to play with Alan Shearer to join the list of class players I’d played with at a young age at Leeds – the Vidukas, Smiths, Kewells, and Woodgates.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I’d be pretty happy about that.
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.
I’m not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn’t think my schedule looked so busy.
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Remember the phrase – ‘Act your age, not your shoe size?’ That didn’t apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn’t have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
I’m living proof that there’s no age limit to rapping.
Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
Who would want a face that hasn’t seen or lived properly, hasn’t got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they’re just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don’t have the looks any more, then it’s over.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
I don’t think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there’s some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn’t make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.
I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything – I’ve just got to get on with it.
We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
I’ve definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics – I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That’s something that comes with age.
When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, ‘What are we going to do now?’ I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, ‘Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?’
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to… It’s a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
My feet are like something from another age – prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
If you play ‘Fortnite’ and you’re over the age of 13 years old, you’ve got a psychological problem. There’s something wrong with you.
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate – A thousand years of Middle Life.
You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
The future of AEW is Maxwell J. Friedman, without a shadow of a doubt. I am going to be the face of this company. At the tender age of 23… people think I’m great now? They don’t know the half of it. I mean, my career’s only just begun.
I would give anything if it went back to analog age. I mean, music was so real, and you had to sing everything on a record; you had to play everything on a record. There was no cut-and-paste – you couldn’t get the chorus right one time and then paste it every other time; you really had to be good at what you did.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one’s body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.
I believe there’s no reason why we couldn’t be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
It’s all about the script. I don’t want to do something which makes me feel uncomfortable. It should suit my image and age.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
We live in an age of miracles.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
We’re in this incredible age where new brands are making people’s lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there’s a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
I think I’d be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It’s nappies, crying, feeding.
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s – the golden age of Hollywood – was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
I don’t think you should celebrate age.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
In conclusion, age quotes remind us of the beauty, wisdom, and growth that come with each passing year. They inspire us to embrace the journey of life, appreciate the lessons learned, and celebrate the stages we have reached. Let these quotes resonate with you as you embrace your own age or honor the age of others, and may they serve as a reminder of the richness, wisdom, and beauty that come with each new year.
