Quotes about Age

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”

“I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.”

“At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.”

“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”

“Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.”

“They say eyes clear with age.”

“A grownup is a child with layers on.”

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”

“I appreciate and enjoy my age.”

“Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.”

“Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.”

“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”

“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

“The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.”

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

“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”

“Being seventy is not a sin.”

“I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.”

“I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.”

“Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.”