Quotes about Age

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.”

“We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”

“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”

“From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.”

“Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.”

“TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.”

“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”

“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.”

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”

“To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”

“It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.”

“Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.”

“We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.”

“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”

“We are always the same age inside.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”