Quotes about Age

“I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.”

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

“I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.”

“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.”

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”

“My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.”

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

“Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.”

“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”

“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

“My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.”

“I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.”

“I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'”

“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”

“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”

“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”

“The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.”

“Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.”

“At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.”

“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”

“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”