Quotes about Age

“Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things.”

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.”

“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”

“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.”

“In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

“I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.”

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?”

“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.”

“Old age is no place for sissies.”

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”

“The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.”

“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”

“We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.”

“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”