Age Quotes - Page 2

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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 now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

No matter what age you are, as a fighter, your obligation is to win.

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.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

We live in an age of miracles.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor.

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.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

They say eyes clear with age.

My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.