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Age Quotes


"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."


"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."


"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."


"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."


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


"Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth."


"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it."


"The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans."


"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."


"The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut."


"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other."


"Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9."


"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."


"Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning."


"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."


"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."


"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."


"I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing."
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"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."



"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."


"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."


"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."


"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."


"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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