Quotes about Age

“Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.”

“'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.”

“I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.”

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

“The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.”

“Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.”

“Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.”

“You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'”

“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”

“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”

“I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.”

“Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.”

“In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.”

“Football is for everyone, no matter what background you're from, what age, what level you play at. This is what it's all about: coming out today, having a good time, and getting involved.”

“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”

“People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.”

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

“Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.”

“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”

“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.”