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Age Quotes
"Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money."
72
"Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."
69
"You just never know when you're living in a golden age."
68
"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age."
68
"The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be."
67
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
66
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
65
"I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit."
64
"I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity."
63
"Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?"
62
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
62
"Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves."
62
"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."
61
"A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.""
61
"Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age."
61
"I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform."
61
"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
61
"Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service."
61
"I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going."
60
"A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people."
60
"Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer."
60
"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
60
"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."
60
"I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed."
60
"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."
59
"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
59
"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
59
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
59
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