Quotes about age
age defeat knows
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat. Rose Kennedy
age whisky
It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it. Ronnie Corbett
age enlightenment modern
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. Umberto Eco
agency hot usual
We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either! Richard Curtis
age literature kind
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Raymond Chandler
agency chess waste
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
age leaps-and-bounds reactions
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. Reinhold Niebuhr
agendas accepting missions
To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life. Rick Warren
age world ugly
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both. Tracey Emin
age expertise
We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on. Vince Staples
agency light waiting
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. Robert Green Ingersoll
age world common
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue. Samuel Johnson
age decay innocence
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
age disease asthma
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
age looks youth
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
age decay innocence
But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away
age sound nuclear
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo
age turns ifs
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. Rumer Godden
age rewards needs
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. Rufus Wainwright
age might culture
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. Rowan Williams
agency air tree
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees. Ronald Reagan
age old-saying wot
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. Robert Jordan
age taught known
It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong. Robert Kagan
age entering needs
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. Robert Johnson
age stories might
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. Roddy Doyle
age statistics computer
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Robert Solow
age youth aging
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. Robert Southey
age culture faces
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. Robert Payne
age sense-of-humor jokes
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.
age youth illusion
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. Robert Louis Stevenson
age safe belief
Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
age sides may
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
age tilt stones
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.