950+ Age Quotes I Could Find

# Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

# Samuel Ullman

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

# Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

# Jerzy Lec

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Stanislaw

# Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

# George Burns

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

# Lauren Bacall

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

# Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.

# George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.

# James Broughton

I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

# Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

# Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

# James Broughton

I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

# Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

# Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.

# George Sand

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

# Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old.

# Pope John XXIII

Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

# Agatha Christie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

# Betty Friedan

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

# Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

# John Adams

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

# Sophia Loren

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

# Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

# Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

# Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

# Jules Renard

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

# Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

# Euripides

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

# Tom Stoppard

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

# Logan Pearsall Smith

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

# Marvin Davis

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

# Brigitte Bardot

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

# Jonathan Swift

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

# Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

# Maurice Chevalier

You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

# Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

# T. S. Eliot

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

# Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

# Sophocles

A man growing old becomes a child again.

# Hugh Hefner

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

# Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

# Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

# Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

# Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

# Muriel Spark

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

# B. F. Skinner

If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.

# John Singer Sargent

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

# Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

# Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

# Bob Hope

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

# Marcus Tullius Cicero

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

# Bette Midler

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

# Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

# Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

# Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

# Bob Hope

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.

# Henri Frederic Amiel

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.

# Golda Meir

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

# Pope Paul VI

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

# Voltaire

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

# Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

# Woody Harrelson

A grownup is a child with layers on.

# James Thurber

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

# Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

# Thomas Browne

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

# Judith Viorst

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

# Harrison Ford

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

# Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

# Bernard Baruch

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

# Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.

# Sam Ewing

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

# Doris Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.

# Dwight L. Moody

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

# Jeanne Moreau

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

# Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

# C. S. Lewis

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

# Cesare Pavese

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.

# Coco Chanel

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

# Eleanor Roosevelt

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

# Stevie Wonder

Minds ripen at very different ages.

# Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

# Leon Edel

The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

# Samuel Ullman

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

# Confucius

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.

# Alan Bleasdale

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

# William Feather

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

# George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

# Robert Quillen

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

# Pierre Corneille

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

# Eleanor Roosevelt

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

# Dr. Seuss

Adults are obsolete children.

# Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

# Amos Bronson Alcott

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

# J. B. Priestley

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

# Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

# Katharine Graham

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

# Pearl S. Buck

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

# Josh Billings

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

# Emily Dickinson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

# Doug Larson

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

# Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.

# Sting

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

# Jean Paul

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

# Harold Coffin

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

# George Lucas

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

# Jane Elliot

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

# Yoko Ono

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

# Fay Weldon

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

# Jim Bishop

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

# Bill Vaughan

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

# Doris Day

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

# Holbrook Jackson

No man is ever old enough to know better.

# Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

# Mignon McLaughlin

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

# Bob Wells

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

# Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

# C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

# Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

# Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin.

# George Burns

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

# Donald G. Mitchell

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

# Helen Gurley Brow

After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

# Maurice Chevalier

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

# Amos Bronson Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

# Muriel Spark

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

# Nawal El Saadawi

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: ‘Nawal, why don’t you get a facelift?’ I tell them, ‘I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?’

# Sinclair Lewis

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

# Jose Ortega y Gasset

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

# Hume Cronyn

The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

# Thomas Dekker

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

# Knut Hamsun

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

# Shelley Duvall

I’m not afraid of aging.

# Mason Cooley

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

# Hosea Ballou

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

# Max Lerner

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

# Don Marquis

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

# Frank A. Clark

We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

# Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.

# Ira Gershwin

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

# Josh Billings

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

# Olivia Munn

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.

# Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

# Paulina Porizkova

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

# Colleen McCullough

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

# Anna Held

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

# Christine Lahti

I don’t want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I’m not interested.

# William Ernest Hocking

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

# Dorothy Canfield Fisher

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

# Frances Conroy

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

# Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.

# Susan Anton

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

# Sarah Orne Jewett

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

# Gene Fowler

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.

# Louis Kronenberger

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

# Douglas Coupland

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We’re all going way beyond our expiration date.

# Eve Arnold

You should never reveal your true age.

# David Mamet

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

# Joan Collins

Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

# John Galsworthy

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

# Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

# Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

# Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

# Thomas Dekker

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

# Luis Bunuel

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.

# Ausonius

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

# Danny Dyer

I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’ve got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

# Jason Kidd

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

# Sadio Mane

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I’m still playing now.

# Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

# Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

# Jon Bon Jovi

There’s a vintage which comes with age and experience.

# Michele Bachmann

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.

# John Olver

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

# Sam Taylor-Johnson

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn’t matter; age, colour, c’mon!

# Hesiod

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

# Peter Medawar

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

# Maurice Chevalier

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

# William Inge

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

# Ralph Peters

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.

# Jim Mattis

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

# Peace Pilgrim

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

# Sophia Bush

Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.

# Henry Miller

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

# Brandi Carlile

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents’ divorce or from the travels that you took.

# George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

# Tom Lehrer

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

# Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

# Mother Angelica

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

# Giorgio Armani

I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

# Patch Adams

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.

# Tracy Morgan

I’m not getting any younger. You’re not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

# Haruki Murakami

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

# Tom Wilson

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

# Abhishek Bachchan

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

# Billie Burke

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.

# Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

# Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

# Simon the Zealot

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

# David Weinberger

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

# Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

# Penelope Cruz

When I was 16, I got ‘Jamon, Jamon.’ Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

# Lou Holtz

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

# Elton John

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

# Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

# Ralph Waldo Emerson

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

# Jean Paul

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

# Colin Powell

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

# Alice Walker

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

# George Foreman

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.

# Leon Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

# Robert Martin

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

# Maeve Binchy

I’ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

# Sigmund Freud

If youth knew; if age could.

# Florence King

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

# Satchel Paige

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.

# A. N. Wilson

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

# Sam Taylor-Johnson

People in love don’t see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It’s about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don’t think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

# Frederick Jackson Turner

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

# Mary Wollstonecraft

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

# Johnny Ball

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

# Bill Hader

I’m the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.

# Michael Caine

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

# Regina Brett

Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

# Muhammad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

# Rodney Dangerfield

I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

# Elton John

And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

# Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.

# Blake Lively

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.

# Henry James

I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.

# Madhuri Dixit

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

# Terry Wogan

Age, they say, is only important if you’re cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?

# Lil Yachty

You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.

# H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

# Jason Mraz

I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

# Jerry Hall

I don’t mind being older. I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot. It’s the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it’s a less valuable commodity?

# Reed Hastings

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

# Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

# ASAP Rocky

I strive for perfection, but I’m not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

# ASAP Rocky

I strive for perfection, but I’m not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

# James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

# Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

# Jeff Buckley

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

# Rich Eisen

I’m a fine wine: I just get better with age. Actually, I’m like the Benjamin Button of the Combine. The older I get, the younger I look and feel.

# Lance Bass

It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

# Dax Shepard

There was a best-selling book in the late ’60s and ’70s called ‘The Adventurers’ by Harold Robbins. The lead character’s name was Dax. Anyone that’s roughly my age that’s named Dax is named from that book.

# Seamus Heaney

I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.

# Florence Henderson

There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

# Lev Grossman

And I’m not as young as I once was. At my age, I don’t have time to be bored.

# Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl – how to be a good, pretty girl – from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we’re told that well-behaved girls won’t change the world or ever make a splash.

# Khalid

For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.

# Ann Coulter

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the ‘idiot voters’ because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

# Carol Alt

It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.

# Billy Joel

I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

# Christian Dior

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a ‘little black frock’ is essential to a woman’s wardrobe.

# J. Cole

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

# Willa Cather

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

# Martin Seligman

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

# Washington Irving

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

# Gray Scott

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.

# Tom Stoppard

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

# Edmund Burke

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

# Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

# Thalia

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

# Orson Welles

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

# Micky Ward

I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can’t say, ‘Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.’ You think you can, but you can’t.

# Laura Marling

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

# Brandi Carlile

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

# Sharron Angle

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

# Francis Bacon

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

# Maria Montessori

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

# Gore Vidal

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

# George Clooney

I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.

# Paige

I want everyone to know that they can accomplish anything they want at any age if they just be themselves. I want to encourage millions to chase their dreams and to never change. Everyone should also know how to throw a good right hook!

# Douglas MacArthur

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

# Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

# Montesquieu

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

# Romeo Santos

My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.

# Billie Burke

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

# J. K. Rowling

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

# Martha Graham

‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

# Pope Francis

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

# Larry Elder

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

# George Burns

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

# Bruce Lipton

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That’s why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.

# Christie Brinkley

No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it’s always about living in the moment and being in the moment… I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.

# Pranab Mukherjee

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

# Princess Diana

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

# James Turrell

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

# Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

# Kirsten Dunst

If you’re successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. ‘Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?’

# Machine Gun Kelly

Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.

# Luciano Pavarotti

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

# Zsa Zsa Gabor

A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won’t tell it.

# Betty Wright

I don’t feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don’t like it, it’s OK.

# W. H. Auden

Now is the age of anxiety.

# Rose Kennedy

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

# Joe Strummer

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

# Margaret Atwood

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

# Mary Schmich

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

# Bill Bryson

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

# Mark Waid

Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

# Sally Hawkins

My feet are like something from another age – prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

# Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

# Jesse Plemons

I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.

# Lady Gaga

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’

# Linton Kwesi Johnson

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

# Aldous Huxley

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

# Matthew Mercer

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

# Billy Graham

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

# Steve Lukather

In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy’s Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio – we were actually pretty good for our age.

# Robert Kiyosaki

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

# Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

# Dr. Disrespect

If you play ‘Fortnite’ and you’re over the age of 13 years old, you’ve got a psychological problem. There’s something wrong with you.

# Charles Kingsley

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

# Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

# Michael Shermer

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

# Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

# S. Jay Olshansky

We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

# Oprah Winfrey

I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

# Andy Serkis

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

# Francisco de Quevedo

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

# Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

# Rajinikanth

My brother was my first guru who introduced me to spiritualism at a very young age. He later even enrolled me into Ramakrishna Mission.

# Shelby Steele

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

# Morrissey

Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.

# Ginni Rometty

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word ‘inclusion.’ And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It’s not men, it’s not women alone. Whether it’s geographic, it’s approach, it’s your style, it’s your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it’s your age – it is really broad.

# Mario Andretti

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

# Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

# Courteney Cox

I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

# R. L. Stine

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

# Kristen Stewart

My best friend just had a baby, and she’s my age. So I’m a godmom now, which is crazy.

# E. Joseph Cossman

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

# Marisha Pessl

In America, people of a certain age ask, ‘Where were you when Kennedy was shot?’ In my house you were more likely to be asked, ‘Where were you when you first read ‘The Catcher In The Rye?’

# Joan Collins

I don’t look my age, I don’t feel my age and I don’t act my age. To me age is just a number.

# Naomi Wolf

‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

# Richard Engel

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

# Helen Reddy

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

# Richard Dawkins

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

# Tommy Cooper

A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’

# Chris Hardwick

We’re not in an information age anymore. We’re in the information management age.

# Phoebe Cary

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

# Robert Green Ingersoll

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

# George Burns

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

# Jay-Z

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.

# Gregory Harrison

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

# Yotam Ottolenghi

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

# Jerry Hall

If experience has taught me anything, it’s to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

# Jean Paul

Live your life and forget your age.

# Amy Winehouse

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

# Eduardo Galeano

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.

# Brooks Atkinson

In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

# Bill Gates

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

# Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

# Epicurus

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

# Jay Weatherill

I believe that investing in our children’s development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

# Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.

# Marv Levy

Age is inevitable. Aging isn’t.

# Cher

I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’

# Hayao Miyazaki

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

# Charlie Brooker

In the age of social media, everyone’s a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

# Earl Warren

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

# Tom Brokaw

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.

# Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

# Madelyn Cline

Skin care is massively important to me. My mom instilled that into my brain from a pretty young age.

# William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

# Bernard Baruch

To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.

# Derf

When I started doing ‘The City’ in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It’s very frustrating.

# Taylor Swift

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

# Amanda Seyfried

It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

# Louisa May Alcott

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

# Colleen Atwood

I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it’s important how clothing looks, but it’s equally important how it feels on your skin.

# Keanu Reeves

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

# Nikki Sixx

You have to age gracefully. And that’s what I love about Keith Richards. That’s what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that’s the most beautiful thing that we can do.

# Rakim

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.

# Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

# Min Jin Lee

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.

# Lisa Leslie

Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

# Bill Hader

I remember seeing ‘Spinal Tap’ at a young age and being like, ‘That’s how you perform comedy.’

# -Nicholas Kristof

What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents’ nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world.

# Donna Karan

Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

# Mithila Palkar

‘Girl in the City Chapter 2’ will still continue to revolve around Meera Sehgal and her life, her friends, and her passion. The stark difference in ‘Chapter 2’ will be that all the characters have now grown up in the series – in terms of maturity if not so much age.

# Diana Rigg

I think women of my age are still attractive.

# Cindy Crawford

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.

# Ben Fountain

The Gilded Age robber barons – the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers – did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of the rest of Americans were still stuck in the ditch, with little to no economic security, life expectancy of roughly 45 years, and horrific infant mortality rates that claimed 300 babies per 1,000 in the cities.

# David Bowie

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

# Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

# Peter Zumthor

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

# Joan Jett

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women’s rules.

# Maria Edgeworth

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

# David Shields

Take Jonathan Franzen’s work: it’s just old wine in new bottles. They say he’s the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

# Bono

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

# Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.

# Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

# Percy Julian

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.

# Oswald Mosley

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

# Adam Curtis

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.

# John Singleton

I really took filmmaking very seriously… It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I’m a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

# Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.

# James Anthony Froude

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

# James A. Michener

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

# Sophia Loren

There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

# Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

I never actually got noticed on the street for ‘Harry Potter.’ I did it at such a young age, when I was going through puberty and changing up my hair and how I looked.

# Billy Graham

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

# Anne Bradstreet

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

# George M. Church

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

# Amy Tan

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable – but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I’m talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

# Eric Hoffer

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

# Bono

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

# Cate Blanchett

Who would want a face that hasn’t seen or lived properly, hasn’t got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

# Amy Chua

The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China’s golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today’s standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in ‘barbarians’ from the steppe.

# Chuck Noll

One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

# Macaulay Culkin

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn’t interacted with many people my age, and I didn’t really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

# Cat Cora

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

# Margaret Mead

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

# Avril Lavigne

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

# Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

# Jack White

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends’ grandparents.

# Tony Bellew

The speed and timing go with age.

# Hooman Majd

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age – less than a year old – and grew up and was educated in the West.

# Kriti Sanon

I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I’m glad my mom made me do it.

# Russell M. Nelson

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

# Barbara De Angelis

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

# Alex Morgan

Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.

# Martellus Bennett

I recognized from a young age that I wasn’t a football player; I played football.

# Elizabeth George

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

# Sourav Ganguly

Age is never a factor if talent is there.

# Pete Townshend

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

# Chris Fussell

The information age has ushered in a networked and interdependent world, one in which challenges and opportunities appear and disappear faster than traditional organizational models can manage.

# Ricky Gervais

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

# Paul Bloom

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.

# Edmund Burke

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

# Philip Roth

Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.

# Nolan Bushnell

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That’s because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

# Greer Garson

I do wish I could tell you my age but it’s impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

# Jenny Lawson

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

# Sharon Stone

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

# Liv Tyler

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.

# Ariana Grande

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

# Stan Lee

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.

# Cicely Tyson

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

# Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

# J. B. Priestley

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

# Tu Youyou

I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary to middle school.

# Cal Ripken, Jr.

My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn’t feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you’re on a team, age is only a factor when you’re talking in the locker room.

# Maisie Williams

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they’ve just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

# Virender Sehwag

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

# Tim Burton

I am not a big technology person. I don’t go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it’s private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

# Gale Sayers

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you’re going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you’re not going to live that long.

# James Roday

I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like ‘An American Werewolf in London’ in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.

# Andre Maurois

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

# Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’

# Lucille Ball

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.

# Lord Byron

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

# Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.

# Johnny Ramone

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

# Henry Rollins

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.

# Deepak Chopra

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

# Matthew Gray Gubler

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

# Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

# J. B. Priestley

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

# William H. McRaven

The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.

# Shah Rukh Khan

I think love can happen at any age… it has no age.

# Anne Lamott

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I’ve already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

# Yvonne Strahovski

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

# Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

# Charlie Kaufman

There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

# Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

# Clint Eastwood

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

# Isaac D’Israeli

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

# Lauren Bacall

We live in an age of mediocrity.

# David Whyte

The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

# Sarah Gavron

My grandmother – my mother’s mother – was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

# Xavier Dolan

I don’t think the way I portray mother’s and son’s relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it’s transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It’s all about personal background.

# Nick Robinson

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you’re just kind of coming into the world.

# Betty White

I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.

# Randall Jarrell

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

# Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

# Eddie Money

I’m younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I’m still getting up there in age.

# John Mayer

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

# Alex Azar

The 21st century is a golden age of personalization. Whether it’s customizing our smart phones with our favorite apps or ordering exactly what we need when we need it from Amazon, we increasingly expect a unique customer experience, not a one-size-fits-all model.

# H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

# Adam Rickitt

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

# Cate Blanchett

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.

# Giacomo Leopardi

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

# Giorgio Armani

I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.

# Jimmy Buffett

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

# Freddie Gibbs

My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.

# Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.

# Ray Liotta

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

# Drew Barrymore

From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.

# Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

# Ezra Taft Benson

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

# Steven Wright

How young can you die of old age?

# Hassan Rouhani

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

# John Cornwell

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

# Rebecca MacKinnon

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

# Mother Angelica

We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.

# Tom Peters

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

# Bob Barker

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

# Sonu Nigam

I’d say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I’d become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.

# Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

# Alfred Nobel

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

# David Robinson

I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.

# Bernie Sanders

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

# Sean Connery

Some age, others mature.

# Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

# Haruki Murakami

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

# Robert Johnson

Nothing will see us through the age we’re entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don’t have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

# Mark Twain

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

# Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.

# Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

# Jimmy O. Yang

I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.

# Charles Frazier

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask’ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

# Robert Morgan

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

# Robert Mugabe

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

# Jim Mattis

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

# David Wilkerson

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don’t have the patience to learn.

# Sid Sriram

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

# Tourists. Norm Crosby

It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura – it was an absolute Americana audience… people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation.

# Peter Diamandis

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

# Katharine Viner

Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.

# Russell Baker

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

# Hedy Lamarr

Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

# Prince Harry

I think losing your mother at such a young age does end up shaping your life massively. Of course it does, and now I find myself trying to be there and give advice to other people who are in similar positions.

# Dave Barry

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

# Lev Vygotsky

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.

# Martha MacCallum

I think cheerleading is kind of dumb. I didn’t admit to my daughter that I was a cheerleader until she was past the age when I thought she might want to do it.

# Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

# Evander Holyfield

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

# William Boyd

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

# Frenkie de Jong

My quality is my intuition. I can’t just ignore that, can I? Then I’d be a player of whom there are a thousand of my age.

# Sia

I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.

# Jackson Pollock

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

# Michael Connelly

I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.

# David Niven

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I’m very scared. I don’t want to be old. I’ve always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

# Philip Johnson

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

# Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

# Tiger Woods

I’m not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I’m trying.

# Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

# Christopher Gadsden

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

# Anne Fortier

Ever since childhood, I’ve been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

# Charles H. Townes

We can’t avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

# Nick Cannon

One thing about being a stand-up is it’s a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You’re the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It’s such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

# Billy Graham

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

# Joseph Addison

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

# John Updike

When I was born, my parents and my mother’s parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age – was, in a sense, me.

# Brian Clough

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

# Scott Cook

In my view, product/market fit is the most important thing to get right as a startup entrepreneur. There’s a variety of ways to do it, but without solving some pain point that the customer gets so excited about they tell their friends, it’s really hard in the modern age to get any liftoff.

# Mickey Rourke

As time goes by and you’re getting older and stuff like that – getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, ‘Oh, you can age with dignity.’ Really?

# Sam Smith

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone’s life.

# Limahl

My siblings and I had to earn our own pocket money so from the age of about 10 I had a job. I did a paper round, helped with the farmer’s delivery at the weekend, cut hedges for neighbours and worked on a market stall. Then I’d go and buy a record with my hard-won money.

# Dev Anand

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

# Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

# James Young

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant – it seems to me.

# Hozier

I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves – it was a terrible name – the Blue Zoots. We couldn’t actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.

# Flume

I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been… Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

# Jane Fonda

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can’t do what they used to do, and that’s terrible.

# Jain

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries – that’s why I love them.

# David Gemmell

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

# William Feather

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

# Rem Koolhaas

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

# John Gurdon

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

# Jennifer Hudson

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

# Eiza Gonzalez

I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age – to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis.

# John Updike

The theme of old age doesn’t seem to fascinate Hollywood.

# Adam Curtis

In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours.

# Sergio Aguero

I’m often asked where my nickname ‘Kun’ comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.

# Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

# Elizabeth Wurtzel

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you’ve got all this great wisdom, you don’t get to be young anymore.

# Sophie Tucker

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

# Mae Whitman

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It’s something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age – when you are going through something like that – the genre is so meaningful.

# Michael Stipe

I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

# Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

# Lindsay Lohan

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

# Michael Sam

I knew from a young age that I was attracted to guys. I didn’t know if it was a phase… I didn’t want to say, ‘Hey, I might be gay. I might be bi.’ I just didn’t know… I wanted to find who I was and make sure I knew what was comfortable. So I didn’t tell anyone growing up.

# Michael D. Higgins

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

# Alanis Morissette

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

# Will Durant

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

# William Feather

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

# Muhammad Ali

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

# Kirsten Dunst

I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.

# A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

# Brock Pierce

I am really surprised bitcoin isn’t more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn’t tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.

# Robin S. Sharma

As for whether I am a ‘new age guru’, I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

# Dave Barry

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

# Ruby Bridges

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

# Emily Greene Balch

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

# Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

# Judy Sheindlin

You lock your windows before you leave. You put on an alarm if you live in the country because you know that there are bad people out there. Well, in this Internet age, you know that there are bad people out there. And no matter what you do, those bad people are going to get into your house.

# John Legend

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I’ve ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

# Bob Ehrlich

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

# Michael Phelps

This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

# Anand Mahindra

The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.

# Andy Grove

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

# Albert Ellis

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

# Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

# Maya Angelou

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

# Michael Oxley

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

# Brad Pitt

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to Heaven then?’

# Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

# Patrick Bamford

I think for every young player of my age, they have to go out on loan. I know there’s an U21 league and the Europa League for the youth teams, but it’s not the same as playing men’s football, when there’s a lot more riding on it.

# Malcolm Gladwell

Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It’s based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn’t true.

# Zendaya

Age doesn’t mean anything. Age doesn’t mean I can’t work as hard. Age doesn’t mean I can’t do as well as everyone else. It’s just a factor. It’s just there.

# George Burns

If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.

# Mae Jemison

Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 – that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

# Claude Pepper

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.’

# Jeremy Scott

A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that’s because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.

# Chuck Jones

Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a book that many people don’t know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

# John Updike

We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings… Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

# Kate Winslet

I was always quite good with accents – I always had quite a good ear – so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

# Mikhail Baryshnikov

People dance at any age.

# Gary Vaynerchuk

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I’m far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read ‘Tech Crunch,’ ‘Ad Age.’ I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

# Bill Burr

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

# Kevin Parker

For me, it’s always been draining to be around people for too long because I’m naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

# John Lanchester

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.

# Clint Eastwood

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

# Donna Brazile

It’s true you never know the full depth of a parent’s touch in your life until they’re gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there’s never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.

# Will Durant

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

# Thomas Moore

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

# Robert Kennedy

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

# Burna Boy

I can guarantee you that at least 90% of my people that are my age group in Nigeria – who are considered the youth – had no clue about how Nigeria, the real origins of Nigeria.

# Tom Stoppard

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

# John Henrik Clarke

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

# Hesiod

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

# Sushmita Sen

I will definitely get married, but it is not that it has to happen at a certain age.

# Simone de Beauvoir

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

# John Donne

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

# Dr. Dre

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

# James McGreevey

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn’t like everybody else. I mean I wasn’t like the other kids. I didn’t know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I’m like, ‘Hey, something’s wrong here.’

# Chuck Norris

There is one thing on which most athletes and experts seem to agree. If you want to be an elite athlete, good nutrition at a young age is an important place to start.

# Gail Sheehy

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

# Robert E. Lee

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

# John Paul Jones

America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.

# Bappi Lahiri

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.

# Jiddu Krishnamurti

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

# Sam Shepard

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life – had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad’s farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

# Rooney Mara

It’s really hard coming of age in today’s society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you’re 16 years old. Most kids don’t know what they want to do. How could they? They haven’t lived in the real world yet.

# Michael McIntyre

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you’re younger than you thought you were.

# Kim Cattrall

I’m a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I’ve done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I’m the hottest thing going.

# Bennett Cerf

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.

# Hayley Atwell

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

# Lewis Capaldi

I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.

# Novalis

Where children are, there is the golden age.

# Lisa Joy

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

# Bono

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

# Jean Piaget

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

# Maria Montessori

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

# Jake Gyllenhaal

I remember being in college knowing I didn’t want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

# Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

# Chuck Palahniuk

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn’t know anything.

# Craig Kielburger

When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he’d been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.

# Elon Musk

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

# Tommy Hilfiger

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

# Peleg Top

We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.

# Ritika Singh

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

# Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Even though I’m not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

# Arsene Wenger

At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

# Dikembe Mutombo

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We’ve already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

# Pearl S. Buck

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

# Edward Weston

Photography suits the temper of this age – of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

# Jenny Lewis

The Rilo Kiley song ‘A Better Son/Daughter’ is my most requested song – especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It’s sort of a mid-twenties lament.

# Wayne Gretzky

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

# Robertson Davies

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

# John Knowles

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow’s homework.

# Jimmy Buffett

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

# Paolo Nutini

I’ve met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

# Ben Barnes

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

# Robert Kiyosaki

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‘Age War.’ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

# Kim Cattrall

There’s still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there’s the other side that says, ‘Let’s just wait a minute and see what happens.’ That’s intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

# Robert Kiyosaki

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

# Nelson Rockefeller

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.

# Iman

That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age – to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.

# Maggie Kuhn

Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

# Gary Lineker

The truth is I don’t feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

# Michael Connelly

When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me – only two or three years old – when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He’s also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book.

# Taylor Goldsmith

I feel like a lot of artists, when they’re on their fourth record, they’re perceived as the old guys. At least in this day and age. I like that people perceive us as just getting started because that’s how we perceive ourselves.

# Boris Johnson

The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.

# Orison Swett Marden

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

# Andre Maurois

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

# W. Somerset Maugham

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

# Chinua Achebe

I don’t care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

# John Shimkus

I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age… seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world’s going to end because of the 2 percent man-made greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. And even if it were, we’re not going to stop it.

# D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

# Billy Graham

There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.

# Aly Raisman

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn’t have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

# John McAfee

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a ‘whisper’ is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife’s ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

# Ninon de L’Enclos

Old age is a woman’s hell.

# Johnny Mathis

I’m still going strong. I have been very blessed and still am. I love singing. Obviously, at my age, I don’t tour with as many dates throughout the year as I did in the past. But I do this to honor my father who was also a singer. I still miss him and his encouragement.

# Adam Curtis

One of the guiding beliefs of our consuming age is that we are all free and independent individuals. That we can choose to do pretty much what we want, and if we can’t, then it’s bad. But at the same time, co-existing alongside this, there is a completely different, parallel universe where we all seem meekly to do what those in power tell us to do.

# John Kricfalusi

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you’re going to get.

# Jack Benny

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

# Jane Fonda

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

# Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

# Diane Lane

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

# Brandi Rhodes

I have been an athlete for much of my life starting at the age of 4.

# Jenny Slate

I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I’ve always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances – whatever I could.

# Paul Weller

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes – since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.

# Joe Elliott

If you don’t physically age gracefully, it’s a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in ’73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don’t get fat they’ll get away with the wrinkles.

# Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

# George Hickenlooper

There’s something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

# Jeffrey Kluger

Older fatherhood isn’t all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who’s just getting started.

# Ryan Giggs

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you’re not as hungry as players used to be. You think you’ve made it before you’ve done anything.

# Diane Keaton

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

# Dolly Parton

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‘Dang, she looks good for her age!’

# Omari Hardwick

Know that the tattoos are all significant. They’re all extremely insignificant. I can’t break each one down, but it’s 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.

# Phyllis Diller

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

# Susan Wojcicki

Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

# Kate Bush

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

# Sadiq Khan

Everyone – regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age – should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.

# William J. Perry

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs… are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

# Bad Bunny

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

# Bram Stoker

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

# Rose Kennedy

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

# Maria Montessori

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

# John Cho

I’ve found that one’s language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I’ve always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.

# Thom Gunn

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

# James Dyson

In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

# Kevin Bacon

Whether it’s my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I’ve worked with somebody or not.

# Kerli

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of ‘American Idol.’ So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.

# Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

# Marianne Williamson

You label somebody ‘New Age,’ and that’s automatic mockery: ‘She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.’

# Ariel Dorfman

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

# Frank Lampard

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who’s performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

# Frank Lampard

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

# Andy Warhol

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.

# David Oshinsky

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word ‘fascist’ all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists – on and on.

# Meg Rosoff

I’m constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read ‘In Cold Blood’ at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn’t mean you should.

# Demi Moore

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

# Monica Bellucci

We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.

# Michael N. Castle

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

# David Hockney

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

# Bernice King

I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It’s still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, ‘Be slow to anger.’

# Olivia Hussey

I had played the Virgin Mary in ‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ and I had done ‘Juliet’ at the age of 15. People said, ‘Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?’ And I said, ‘Mother Teresa of Calcutta.’

# Oprah Winfrey

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

# George Muller

My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.

# Tim DeKay

I’ve always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I’m showing my age here.

# Becky G

It’s nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it’s like a different level of understanding.

# Jonathan Ive

I discovered at an early age that all I’ve ever wanted to do is design.

# Liam Payne

I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn’t find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn’t working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.

# Cody Fern

I grew up in a very small country town, so I was exposed to horses at quite a young age, but I used to cry and run; they seemed so powerful and so unpredictable.

# Rakim

Age don’t count in the booth.

# Rachel Kushner

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object – it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

# Billy Graham

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

# Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

# Cathleen Schine

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women’s movement that liberated us, however.

# Alan Alda

Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

# John Polkinghorne

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

# Rick Bass

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

# David Brin

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

# D. H. Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

# Amy Adams

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I’ve wasted trying to find the right man.

# Laurie Simmons

I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and process art, and it was very important not to tell a story. If you told a story, when I was a young artist and first came to N.Y., it was, like, an embarrassing way to make art.

# Daniel Radcliffe

When you’re seventeen to early twenties, that’s the time you’re trying to work out who you are. If you’re trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that’s the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

# Ronald Reagan

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

# Mohammad bin Salman

We will not continue to be in the post-’79 era. That age is over.

# Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

# Tony Robbins

We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

# Hugh Jackman

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.

# Thomas Jefferson

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

# Marianne Williamson

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don’t think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

# JoJo Siwa

MeToo is a strong movement in Hollywood, but a lot of my fans and demographic are younger, and they don’t really understand what’s going on with it. I wanted to put something out for them, even for those who are 4 years old, that every girl is a super girl. No matter your age, your height, your weight, your color – whatever you are.

# Jewel

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

# Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

# Bubba Wallace

Everybody should live their lives to the fullest with no hassles, no hold-backs, no matter what age, what color you are… I don’t have an issue talking about it, taking the forefront of it.

# Sooraj Pancholi

I used to stay with my grandparents in Juhu from the beginning and my sister lived with my parents. They both died five years back and so, since the age of 16, I live alone with my four dogs.

# Rumaan Alam

Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was the age for it.

# Lisa Frank

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

# Nia Jax

I get bullied for my size, my weight, and my look constantly. It’s something that I’m glad we touched on in WWE. I’m glad we touched on it because it’s real: it’s something that happens in real life to kids all the time, especially in the age of cyber bullying.

# -Ezra Miller

I don’t know if it’s responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don’t think we’re ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that’s what you’re supposed to be looking for.

# Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

# Christie Brinkley

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It’s not the number; it’s not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It’s the energy that you project.

# Lou Holtz

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

# Richard Branson

In this digital age, it doesn’t really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

# Quentin Blake

I don’t feel as if I belong to an age group.

# Morgan Freeman

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

# Maria Shriver

The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn’t a matter of, ‘Can I?’ or ‘Should I?’ It was just, ‘You can, you must, you will!’ She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.

# Julius Erving

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

# Marv Levy

The age factor means nothing to me. I’m old enough to know my limitations and I’m young enough to exceed them.

# Lucy Hale

I definitely used to lie about my age. I’m from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.

# Eric Dier

My PE teacher used to scout for Sporting and, when I was nine, he recommended me for a trial. From there, I just went up through the age groups and was always kept on while others were dropping out.

# Patti Smith

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

# Amy Purdy

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.

# Jada Pinkett Smith

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can’t wait until a person is 18 years old and say, ‘Now you have the right’. You have to start that from the gate.

# Francis Parker Yockey

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

# Kamal Haasan

If my idol Mahatma Gandhi could fight to eradicate corruption at the age of 78, why can’t I try at 60?

# Christopher Lasch

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

# Mariah Carey

I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, Why? Why do that?

# Eiza Gonzalez

When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I’ll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family.

# David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

# William Godwin

I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell.

# Judy Gold

Remember the phrase – ‘Act your age, not your shoe size?’ That didn’t apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

# Alyssa Milano

Italian men age very well. That’s what I’ve learned from Tony Danza.

# Ron White

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.

# Barbara Mikulski

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

# Howie Carr

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

# Roger Ebert

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

# Kim Cattrall

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

# Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man’s of a comparable age.

# Joe Walsh

I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.

# Jim James

I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.

# Francis Ford Coppola

It’s ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn’t even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

# Philippe Petit

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

# Bruce Lipton

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.

# Lyndon B. Johnson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

# John Lewis

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn’t or couldn’t pass the literacy test.

# Wayne Dyer

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

# Max Keiser

Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user’s privacy beyond the reach of any authority.

# Amy Madigan

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

# John Perry Barlow

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

# Abel Ferrara

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

# Robert Evans

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don’t have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

# David Bowie

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

# Katelyn Ohashi

I learned at a young age that my voice was not wanted or heard, so I went silent. I did what I was told and set goals based on what everyone else expected of me.

# Robert Ballard

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

# Jamie Oliver

I could cook from quite an early age – purely because I liked it.

# John le Carre

I don’t know whether it’s age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

# Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

# Ban Ki-moon

The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

# Aphra Behn

Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

# Peter Mullan

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a ‘Let’s go play football.’

# Charles Spurgeon

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

# Elizabeth Berkley

Girls’ inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

# Andrew Ng

In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of startups using computer vision for agriculture or shopping – there are a lot for clothes shopping. At Baidu, for example, if you find a picture of a movie star, we actually use facial recognition to identify that movie star and then tell you things like their age and hobbies.

# Salma Hayek

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you’re in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

# Natalya Neidhart

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!

# Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.

# Lela Rose

The hands really show signs of age.

# Lucinda Williams

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

# Brie Bella

You’re gonna lose looks when it comes with age, but if you have that sense of humor, it will always keep things great in a relationship.

# Brit Morin

To me, age doesn’t make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.

# Johnnie Cochran

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

# John Waters

At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I’ve gone gaunt.

# William Hazlitt

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

# Nicolas Chamfort

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

# Emma Thompson

If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

# Matthew Williamson

In a digital age, I still love sending and receiving cards, hand-writing notes, and wrapping gifts.

# Robert Knepper

I did a film when I was about 30; it’s a coming of age story called ‘Gas Food Lodging,’ and I’m so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he’s such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn’t talk too much. He’s just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.

# Richard Armitage

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

# Miuccia Prada

I hate the idea that you shouldn’t wear something just because you’re a certain age.

# B. B. King

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

# Satyajit Ray

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

# Kangana Ranaut

I don’t feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

# Bill Skarsgard

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It’s a tough age, period.

# Mario Cantone

I knew the full ‘Judy Garland Carnegie Hall’ double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, ‘Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you’re upset?’

# Oprah Winfrey

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.

# Jack Nicholson

I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this; it just doesn’t feel right at my age.

# Cynthia Erivo

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

# Robert Eggers

This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I was a kid.

# Greg Boyle

The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the ‘whole cloth’ of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is ‘tougher than thou.’

# Gore Vidal

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

# Carl Sandburg

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

# Benny Hill

I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.

# Dimple Kapadia

People feel I look younger than my age. I don’t feel that way.

# John Forsythe

It’s rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

# Chris Pine

I don’t think there’s anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I’m going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don’t want to look perpetually young.

# Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

# John Hume

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

# George W. Bush

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

# Richard Dean Anderson

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in ‘Brief Candle.’

# Geoff Dyer

Once you’ve published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you’ve sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.

# Salma Hayek

I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

# Bo Bennett

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

# Joan Collins

One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I’ve sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, ‘Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I’m your age!’ Although it’s intended to be complimentary, it’s actually a back-hander.

# Dave Grohl

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

# Kim Cattrall

You have to be desirable. And that’s why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, ‘Why do women do this?’ Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

# Linus Pauling

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

# Khloe Kardashian

I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it’s educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty – whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.

# Henry A. Wallace

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

# Brendan Coyle

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn’t going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn’t good enough. That’s not a bad thing. You see this ‘X Factor’ generation of kids now who don’t accept that they’re not good enough.

# Katharine Hepburn

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

# Rza

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

# Stephen Merchant

It’s not like I think: ‘By the age of 40 I’ve got to be an international household name.’ When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I’ll take it. It’s really good fun. But because I don’t crave the attention or the buzz, it’s not like I’m desperate for it.

# Gloria Steinem

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, ‘Just wait.’

# Dan Reynoldsv

I’ve had so many parents ask me, ‘So when should you talk about what it means to be gay or LGBTQ with a child?’ I don’t think there’s any age that’s too young.

# Gina Barreca

From age 16 to age 20, a woman’s body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it’s an amusement park. From 45 on, it’s a terrarium.

# Xenophon

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

# Ben Marcus

My first book, ‘The Age of Wire and String,’ came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

# Arthur Hugh Clough

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

# Timothy Leary

In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.

# Barry Marshall

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother’s medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

# John Burroughs

Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

# M. J. Hyland

From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

# Pindar

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

# Thom Yorke

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won’t any by the time… he’s my age. That’s kinda hard to deal with.

# Lewis Capaldi

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

# Prue Leith

The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn’t try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn the basics.

# Ajay Piramal

Life looked bleak when I became chairman of the group at the age of 29. But I survived, as the Lord must have carried me when I needed Him the most.

# Robert Browning

What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

# Kailash Satyarthi

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

# Tom Lehrer

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

# George Burns

At my age flowers scare me.

# Salvador Dali

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

# Saoirse Ronan

I’ve always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

# Janet Jackson

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn’t a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

# Judy Garland

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

# Charles B. Rangel

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.

# Jared Kushner

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

# Jen Sincero

Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.

# William James

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

# Michael Caine

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.

# Virgil

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

# Jordan Henderson

Age is not really the biggest factor, whichever end of the scale you are at. It’s how you perform, how you respond to the challenge of having good players around you competing for your place.

# Allan Bloom

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

# Simon Sinek

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like ‘network,’ ‘community’ and even ‘friends’ no longer mean what they used to. Networks don’t exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

# Jane Fonda

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth – in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

# Iman

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what’s important.

# Ben Bernanke

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

# Tom Wolfe

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.

# Julie Burchill

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

# Ginger Rogers

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left!

# David Bowie

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

# Ang Lee

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It’s the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

# Bryan Konietzko

Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn’t even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three of the elements at age four.

# Craig Venter

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we’re witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

# Naseem Hamed

With age, you become more humble, more wise.

# Casey Stengel

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

# Ezra Miller

For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.

# Thomas Szasz

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

# William Blake

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

# Andreja Pejic

I figured out who I was very early on – actually, at the age of 13, with the help of the Internet – so I knew that a transition, becoming a woman, was always something I needed to do.

# David Rakoff

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one’s best, then at very least one’s most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

# Tim McGraw

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can’t be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it’s so dangerous for kids. So there’s a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

# Sean Gunn

I’m the youngest of six. When you’re in a big family, you get put to the test right away. Do I like being the center of attention? Or do I not like it? You have to make that decision a lot growing up. I knew from a very young age that I liked it.

# Kevin Hart

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

# Aziz Ansari

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

# Dean Kamen

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

# Ruth Bader Ginsburg

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

# F. Scott Fitzgerald

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

# Kehinde Wiley

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

# Cameron Diaz

I would love a family. I’m at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

# Estelle

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that’s how you are, you know. Things don’t just run themselves; you have to make them run.

# Thomas Carlyle

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

# Nick Foles

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

# Carrie Underwood

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

# Gabrielle Bernstein

I started my entrepreneurial journey right out of college. At the age of 21, I incorporated my first business: a PR firm based in New York City.

# K. Flay

I’m having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it’s moving backward, and I think there’s a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

# Roger Zelazny

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

# Lana Condor

I was so in love with this boy in eighth grade. I really thought he was the one for me, and then he broke up with me because he said that I liked him more than he liked me, and I was living in N.Y. at the time, and I was on the subway just, like, truly heartbroken because when you’re that age, you don’t think you are ever going to recover.

# Clint Eastwood

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

# Jeff Hanneman

Me and my dad were so much alike that we would just butt heads. I pretty much hated him from the age of 16 to 24 for no real reason.

# E. B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

# Rakul Preet Singh

My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.

# Bayley

When I started listening to Paramore, I was in high school, and they were, like, 15. Seeing somebody at such a young age have that ambition, I thought, holy crap, they were so young. They seemed like cool people, and I really liked the music.

# Erich Fromm

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

# Tim O’Brien

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

# Kate Walsh

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there’s this notion that if you haven’t hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

# Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

# William Manchester

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.

# Greg Sestero

I like the legend behind him. James Dean symbolizes the young actor’s dream. He struggled to get into Hollywood. He shot to fame at the age of 24 but only got to star in three films. It’s kind of a fantasy of what could have been.

# Andie MacDowell

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

# Wale

All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That’s why I travel the world – for me, that’s my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch – something that’s elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

# Fatih Birol

We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.

# Jeannette Walls

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out – all elbows and knees, couldn’t get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I’m a big ol’ strapping thing, so I just accept it.

# Joseph Brodsky

I don’t suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.

# Tom Brady

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

# Jacques Torres

I decided on a chocolate business. I love the history of chocolate and making it and the fact that people of any gender, age, and race enjoy it. I found a space in Brooklyn that had not been used in 30 years. Then I talked to an investor who wanted more than 50 percent of the business.

# Rachel Platten

Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn’t seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

# George Saunders

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

# David Morse

Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that’s been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren’in, his mother is now Bren’in, and they’re kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He’d been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn’t happened.

# Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

# Paige

I couldn’t really get a grasp on wrestling at a young age. I knew it was what my parents did, and they fought people. It scared the crap out of me, so I thought, ‘No, I can’t do that. I’ll get beaten up!’

# Andrew Rannells

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

# Saina Nehwal

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

# Greg Lake

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they’d come from this age of shared music.

# Ezra Miller

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about ‘La Traviata’ by the time I was eight.

# Ian Mckellen

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, ‘You should be so lucky to have a taxi – I walk to work!’ So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don’t treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

# Ann Hood

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, ‘I’m going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.’ ‘Well, good for you,’ I thought. ‘I’m going to go home and scream.’

# John Prendergast

I’ve had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.

# Abraham Lincoln

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

# Murda Beatz

I was born in Niagara Falls. The high school I went to had 500 kids and the school didn’t have a lot of money. The town itself was whatever. It was a good place to grow up. It was a blessing that I grew up there, because I got to find myself at a young age.

# Joe Lieberman

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.

# Timothee Chalamet

I’ve always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age.

# Brad D. Smith

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

# Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

# Miles Heizer

Teenagers’ relationships with their parents often aren’t really explored in much depth, but at that age, it’s your primary relationship; they’re the people you live with.

# Diana Rigg

I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can’t compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven’t had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I’m not prepared to do it.

# Michael K. Powell

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

# Stephen Covey

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

# Rowan Atkinson

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

# Bonnie Raitt

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

# Ledisi

I’m not focused on radio or whether I’m going to get all the audiences… all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener – Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

# Jon Batiste

We are in a technological age, and ‘Social Music’ aims to reflect that spirit of advancement, collaboration and connectivity while still remaining ‘human.’ And Stay Human, then, is a reminder of what connects us all. It’s our mantra.

# John Entwistle

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

# Michael Tubbs

The first time I saw my father, he was chained. Gone was the mirage of the invincible man, the man who would protect me once I found him. At the age of 12, I finally saw my father – in an orange jumpsuit, looking weak and vulnerable.

# Virginia Woolf

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

# Gino D’Acampo

I understood food from a very early age. I understood the combination of ingredients very early.

# James Maddison

I got to play first-team men’s football from a young age.

# Ehud Barak

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I’d eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

# Bob Keeshan

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

# John Dyer

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

# Kyle

At some point, I had to ignore what people thought of me. I had to be my own biggest fan from an early age. Once I learned that, it was like a superpower. That was the armor that got me through high school.

# Diana Nyad

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

# Chris de Burgh

I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.

# Richard N. Haass

Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.

# Tom Reiss

‘The Secret Agent,’ Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich – in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash – has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.