Age Quotes - Page 15

And you? What brings you here? I shrugged my shoulders. No idea? Hm, you’re still young. Eighteen? I froze. Nineteen? Twenty? Incredible, so young. You have everything before you. No past. He sighed. Incredible, to have been so young once myself. Although what does that mean? There is only one age for anyone. I was and am, will always be fifty-eight. But you. Be careful what age you end up. It sticks to you. It seals you shut. The age you choose is like glue, it sets around you. This wisdom is not mine, you know. I got it from a book. A movie. I’m not sure. You notice things. It’s incredible. Your whole life you notice things.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

If you believe getting close to being 50 is bad... wait to see how one feels when getting far crom that age

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Age is glory.

Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older... So far though, this is the oldest I've ever been.

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

Wouldn't the world be a much better place if we didn't make it past the age of maybe 10? Think back to when we were younger, before we were so easily influenced by adults. We rebelled against everything that we now believe is impossible. Super Heroes still existed and we didn't hold grudges because "sorry" was okay and as long as you still wanted to share your toys with me, nothing more needed to be said. Be 10 years old today everyone.

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

You're seventeen now. You can do...absolutely nothing you couldn't already

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

My age and the ages of my children are imaginary numbers.

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...

I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it’s cute.

God isn’t finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels,” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, tand the places we keep them get weaker with age.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

How old are you, anyway?""How old are you?""Seventeen."I raise a brow."Almost. I'll be seventeen in two weeks. You?"Part of me doesn't want to tell her. She'll be horrified. But part of me wants to know what she will do when she knows the truth. "How old do you think I am?"She lifts a slender shoulder. "At first I thought maybe eighteen, but now I'm thinking at least nineteen. Maybe even twenty?""why's that?""You seem very ... experienced."I nod. "You're close. Today's my birthday. I'm thirteen.

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.

At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next," so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

I am older than your age and younger than your body.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

(On having being just proposed to)'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

I might not have been so young, but age alone doesn’t necessarily make you less foolish.

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life.

I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning,so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.

She had short curls and her face had so many wrinkles it looked as if someone had been trying to draw her for a very long time and every line put in had made the face more like her.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?

In my dreams, I never have an age.