Quotes on Age

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Author: Grace Abbott

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

Author: Paula Abdul

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?

Author: King Abdullah II

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Author: M. Abrams

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Author: Victoria Abril

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Author: Franklin Adams

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Author: Franklin Adams

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Author: Franklin Adams

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

Author: James Adams

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Author: Joseph Addison

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Author: Joseph Addison

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Author: Theodor Adorno

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Author: Aeschylus

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.

Author: Andre Agassi

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

Author: Peter Akinola

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

Author: Edward Albert

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Author: Amos Alcott

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.

Author: Louisa Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Author: Thomas Aldrich

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Author: Thomas Aldrich

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

Author: Jane Alexander

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Author: Muhammad Ali

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

Author: Lucille Allard

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Author: Isabel Allende

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Author: Henri Amiel

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Author: Maxwell Anderson

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'

Author: Richard Anderson

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Author: Naveen Andrews

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.

Author: Barbara Angelis

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

Author: Francesca Annis

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Author: Antiphanes

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Author: Fiona Apple

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Author: R. Apple, Jr.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Author: Janos Arany

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Author: Hannah Arendt

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

Author: Alexis Arguello

Education is the best provision for old age.

Author: Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Author: Aristotle

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

Author: Alan Arkin

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.

Author: Giorgio Armani

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Author: Matthew Arnold

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

Author: Thomas Arnold

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Author: Daisy Ashford

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.

Author: Michael Aspel

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

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.

Author: Brooks Atkinson

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Author: Richard Attenborough

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Author: Margaret Atwood

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.

Author: W. Auden

Now is the age of anxiety.

Author: W. Auden

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Author: Sri Aurobindo

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Author: Ausonius

I started tennis around age 2.

Author: Tracy Austin

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

Author: Frankie Avalon

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.

Author: David Axelrod

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Author: Amitabh Bachchan

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Author: Randy Bachman

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

Author: Randy Bachman

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Author: Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Author: Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Author: Francis Bacon

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Author: Enid Bagnold

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

Author: Anita Baker

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Author: Russell Baker

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Author: Russell Baker

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Author: Robert Bakker

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

Author: Scott Bakula

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Author: Alec Baldwin

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.

Author: James Baldwin

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Author: Johnny Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Author: Lucille Ball

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Author: Hosea Ballou

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Author: Russell Banks

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Author: Roger Bannister

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

Author: Roger Bannister

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Author: Joseph Barbera

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

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.

Author: Bob Barker

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

Author: John Barlow

Old age is the verdict of life.

Author: Amelia Barr

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Author: Dave Barry

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Author: Lionel Barrymore

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Author: Bernard Barton

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Author: Bruce Barton

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Author: Bernard Baruch

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Author: Bernard Baruch

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Author: Jacques Barzun

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

Author: Charles Bass

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Author: Shirley Bassey

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Author: Birch Bayh

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

Author: Stephen Bayley

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

Author: James Beattie

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

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.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Author: Xavier Becerra

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

Author: Alison Bechdel

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Author: Alison Bechdel

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Author: Martha Beck

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

Author: Gerry Beckley

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Author: Michael Behe

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Author: Aphra Behn

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Author: Aphra Behn

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

Author: Adrian Belew

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Author: Adrian Belew

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

Author: Chris Bell

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Author: Clive Bell

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

Author: Ahmed Bella

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Author: Ahmed Bella

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

Author: Carol Bellamy

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.

Author: Bo Bennett

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Author: Jack Benny

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Author: A. Benson

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Author: Jeremy Bentham

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Author: Eric Bentley

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Author: Robert Benton

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Author: Candice Bergen

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Author: Candice Bergen

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Author: Candice Bergen

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Author: Candice Bergen

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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.

Author: Judy Biggert

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Author: Judy Biggert

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Author: Theodore Bikel

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Author: Theodore Bikel

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Author: Juliette Binoche

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Author: Jim Bishop

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Author: Tim Bishop

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

Author: Bjork

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Author: Davidson Black

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

Author: Frank Black

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Author: Bonnie Blair

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.

Author: William Blake

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Author: Kathleen Blanco

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

Author: Alexis Bledel

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

Author: Drew Bledsoe

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Author: Allan Bloom

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

Author: Lionel Blue

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Author: Matt Blunt