Age Quotes (2753 Quotes)

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

Hiro (the Crown Prince) was kind and often gave me words of encouragement. Aya (Prince Akishino) was a child who was sensitive and considerate at the same time, there were times when he seemed to keep an eye on me out of concern so that I would not fail to recognize the truth about myself. When Hiro told me that I looked young for my age, Aya came to me that night and corrected his brother's remark with a straight face, saying,

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Please do not think me a pessimist. I love life. I think it is a joy to live in this age. Every morning, as I greet the sun as he ushers in these unexcelled autumn days, I feel the joy of living. I realize the accomplishments, to a certain degree, of this wonderful mechanistic age. Today time and distance are practically annihilated.

That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age.

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

You see the warmongers, in any age it's the same thing - they make money out of it.

We met at church and played in the church music team together. We all dig the same kind of music. We're pretty much the same age, so it all just worked out.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

What you would need to do is have people retire somewhere between age 75 and 85.

We are particularly interested in early-stage companies with products and services which have the potential to create breakthroughs in the evolving Internet age, with an aim to integrate those products and services into Dell's business and drive our future growth.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Original spelling. But Dulness sits at Helm, and in this Age, Governs on Councils, Pulpits, and the Stage Here a dull Councellor ador'd we see, And there a Poet, duller yet than he, With beardless Bishop, dullest of the three, 'Tis dangerous to think For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence....

There's an element of contempt for meanings. You want to write outside the usual framework. You want to dare readers to make a commitment you know they can't make. That's part of crazed prose. There's also the sense of drowning in information and in the mass awareness of things. Everybody seems to know everything. Subjects surface and are totally exhausted in a matter of days. ... The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, dear reader, if you went back to the living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here. This writer is working against the age and so he feels some satisfaction at not being widely read. He is diminished by an audience.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Typically, on-line, there is no way to verify age. You have a credit card being offered or a check card that doesn't have a birth date. You're not looking at the person. There's no way to verify who you're dealing with. The only way to deal with that is at the point of delivery in the case of on-line sales.

I'm telling people that I lost it at 17, only because it sounds like a good age. I made a deal with my wife before the movie came out that I wouldn't say.

And I understood that in an age where there was so much ego, because of the camera, that it was very important to look for that kind of player, ... I began to look for the kind of player that doesn't need his ego fed by stardom, but will do what he's supposed to do because he knows the game and loves the game, and will do the job the right way even if someone else gets the glory.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

You can't go from top of the tree, as they were only three or four months ago, and say age is a problem,

He has lived a very unusual life. People who aren't in the know might think he's born to be an economist, that he was studying economics at the age of 5. But he's taken a lot of interesting eddies a long the way.

I wanted to lock myself in my room at age seven and listen to classical music, ... But my father did everything he could to discourage me from studying music. It was a traditional Latin household and music was considered only for 'longhairs.'

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

You and I are entering the information age, and Washington politicians are stuck in the Stone Age.

That's the age when classes start to become departmentalized and this could be the first manifestation of learning differences, because now the child is going from class to class. You may be looking at a time management or organizational problem rather than a problem with the subject matter.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

In the tabloid age, people think that they can say what they want. This is not (covered) by free speech. The truth is you can't just say what you want.

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I mean, way back. I mean sure, they want to go back before the 70s and the 60s to the 50s, no doubt about that. They also want to go back before the New Deal to the 20s, well they also want to go back before the Progressive Era to the Gilded Age. Well, not quite, they also want to go back before the Emancipation Proclamation to the days of slavery, not even, what they want to do is take us back to a moment prior to the Enlightenment they want to take us back to a moment when faith registered more than reason. They want to take us back to an imaginary age of absolute moral clarity, when good was good and evil was evil and everyone could see the difference. They want to take us back to an imaginary Manichean age when youre either with us or against us, which means you either are us or well exterminate you because we can only tolerate ourselves, we can only tolerate those who share our values. If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because thats Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, its when 150 America puts a flag on its lapel and a cross around its neck and a real folksy way a talkin, but just because its red, white and blue, doesnt mean its American.

The civilization of the past 100 years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

The boy never ceases to amaze me with the accomplishments. He just works hard through a lot of adversity. He's focused and pretty responsible for his age. We started this journey in junior league. I put him in there because I wanted to get him fairly decent in high school. I just never dreamed it'd be this.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

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.

Death is inevitable, and, after about the age of 75 or so, you begin to care about people in a certain way. We have all loved Mrs. King in that very special way these last few years. It's just a very tearful right now.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on th.

Most of the soldiers my age are closer to retirement. It's a paradox. I'm just beginning my Army career.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short youth is nimble, age is lame Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold Youth is wild, and age is tame.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

I think he said it because it was his way of showing his confidence in his ability. That's the way I took it. I wouldn't want players not to have confidence, but I think sometimes, because it's written in this day and age, that it's going to follow you.

It is not awkward at all. There is a hierarchy and you follow the hierarchy. He is the defensive coordinator. It is not how old you are. He has been doing this for a very long time for someone his age. The hierarchy is also based on how well you do your job, and he does his job very well. He has earned the respect.

When you get to the age of 64 and you can't do one or two of the things that Bond does, it will be a nice little fantasy for me.

Here's how the pitch sounds. I'm only 41 and in great shape for my age, ... I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look ... I fit in the natural action-hero role.

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

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.