Quotes about Age

“Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.”

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”

“I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.”

“Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.”

“A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.”

“I was born in Niagara Falls. The high school I went to had 500 kids and the school didn't have a lot of money. The town itself was whatever. It was a good place to grow up. It was a blessing that I grew up there, because I got to find myself at a young age.”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”

“That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.”

“My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.”

“Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

“We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.”

“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”

“I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.”

“I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.”

“I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.”

“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.”

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

“Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.”