Quotes about Age

“With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.”

“If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”

“I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!”

“In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age.”

“When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.”

“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.”

“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”

“For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.”

“I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.”

“Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.”

“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”

“Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.”

“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”

“The trick is growing up without growing old.”

“Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.”

“Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.”

“I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.”

“My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.”

“At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.”

“We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.”