Quotes about Age

“I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.”

“In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.”

“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.”

“My mom raised me to be an independent woman, and if there is anything I want in life, to go after it. And that nobody could hold me back. The only person that could do that was myself. That's the core of who I am and she ingrained that in me at a really young age, so I've been an independent, strong person my whole life.”

“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”

“The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.”

“Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.”

“Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.”

“India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.”

“I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.”

“No saint in the world lived like the great saint Ramana Maharishi. They say Jesus Christ was resurrected and rose again from the dead. But there's no proof of it. Ramana Maharishi is the only Mahan who has resurrected in life, and that, too, at the age of 16.”

“People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.”

“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”

“Age is like love, it cannot be hid.”

“At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.”

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

“We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.”

“The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.”

“You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”

“We can achieve anything, no matter what age.”

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”