Quotes about age
age events spirit
We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future. Hans Hofmann
age different alive
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
age pickles cynicism
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker! Gordon B. Hinckley
agents contracts managers
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. Gerard Butler
age speed curse
speed is the curse of the age. Georgette Heyer
agency generations citizens
The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies. Herbert Spencer
age modern infancy
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age. Henry David Thoreau
age youth lost
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
age fascinated
I was fascinated by movies from age 12. Jean Paul Gaultier
agency roles detectives
When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for it. Because he had me audition six times for that role. Maybe three hours each. He wanted to see how quickly I could vary. Jill Scott
age lasts evolution
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms. Ernst Haeckel
age should old-age
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. Ernest Hemingway
age firsts stage
When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers. Ethel Waters
age want facts
The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence. Erma Bombeck
age twelve hernias
After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.
age firsts interviews
The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank. Erin Moran
age
love at any age takes everything you've got. Florida Scott-Maxwell
age alive problem
as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?
age aging intense
I grow more intense as I age.
age disability intense
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
age despair literature
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. Flannery O'Connor
age just-do-it
Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it." Fetty Wap
agents world impossible
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. Henry Louis Gates
age tribes maldives
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. Helen Keller
age spirit widowers
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
age digital forget
You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about. Cate Blanchett
age reason goodness
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing. George Eliot
age care medical
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler. Gore Vidal
age young young-age
I had to work from a young age. Giancarlo Esposito
age profession old-age
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. Jacques Barzun
agendas
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. Jackie DeShannon
agents action goodness
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. Immanuel Kant
age criticism exemption
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.