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Age Quotes


"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."


"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."


"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."


"Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show."


"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."


"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."


"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."


"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"


"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."


"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."


"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."


"A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy."


"Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step."


"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland."



"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."


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



"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."



"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."


"This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing."


"Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am."



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


"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."
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