Quotes about age
agency political inquiry
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question. Wilhelm von Humboldt
age stuff baghdad
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive Walter Isaacson
age may golden
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. Yo-Yo Ma
age lost-everything difficult-times
I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life. Willie Aames
agency commodity danger
Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen. William S. Burroughs
age phrases lamps
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
age found
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. Virginia Woolf
age calm temper
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away. Vinnie Jones
age united-states lasts
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic. Woodrow Wilson
age vacuums young
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially. Xavier Rudd
age comfort savagery
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. Will Self
age amusement parks
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
agents presses
It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent. W. C. Fields
age heroic heroic-death
We live in an age in which there is no heroic death. Yukio Mishima
age together empires
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. Zbigniew Brzezinski
age eleven
Eleven is about the best age for almost anything. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
age invisible accepting
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. Wendell Berry
age firsts investment
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then. Warren Buffett
age changing-your-life wherever-you-are
Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life. Wayne Dyer
age society human-nature
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances. Walter Bagehot
agency hysteria becoming
NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Walter Cunningham
age genius equal
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age. William Blake
age way tolerate
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age. Walker Percy
age youth
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. Wallace Stegner
age acting done
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine. Samuel Larsen
age getting-older want
I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older. Konrad Adenauer
age hometown moved
I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown. Kenny Wallace
age fit surroundings
Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
age needs young
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
age old-age growing-old
Nature abhors the old.
age relief comfort
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.
age individual riddle
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
age getting-older getting-high
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.