Age Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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.

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.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

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

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits - similar to 'Toddlers & Tiaras,' but with dogs.

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

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.