Quotes about Age

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.

We live in a complex age where many of the problems we face can, whatever their origins, only have solutions that involve a deep understanding of science and technology.

We stand, as did the men of old, in the valley, and ask the same question as they: "Watchman, what of the night?" Men of God upon the heights of vision, seers of the present day, looking out upon the great horizon, send back to us the old answer, "The morning cometh; the night also." The signs of the times are such as reveal the power of spirituality, side by side with the development of evil; but, thank God, beyond the night that comes is the larger day and gladder age for man.

Imagine the power of reading a psalm at age eighty that you read daily in your thirties. Rituals can tie our years together.

Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys

But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I want you to know that your future is always bright, no matter what your age.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.

That hand looked a hundred years old. Knuckles and gristle.