Age
Years later, when I asked my father, I said ‘Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?’ he said, son, you plum wore me out.
Author: Charles KochTopics: Age, Famous
A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos.
Author: Ian BothamTopics: Age, Famous, Inspirational
Topics: Age, Famous, Meaningful
Slash and I hadn’t talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, ‘You wrote a lot of stuff that didn’t even happen. It’s not real.’
Author: Axl RoseTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings
When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.
Author: Jane GoodallTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings
I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.
Author: Jane GoodallTopics: Age, Famous, Inspirational
Even at the age of 36, I’m always looking at ways to improve.
Author: James AndersonTopics: Age, Famous, Improve
The arts are a reflection of the world we live in.
Author: Debbie AllenTopics: Age, Art, Famous, Positive
At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.
Author: Gene KellyTopics: Age, Dreams, Famous
When you’re 25, it’s a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Author: MadonnaTopics: Age, Behavior, Famous
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
Author: Vin DieselTopics: Age, Famous, Life
The Stone Age didn’t end because the World ran out of stones.
Author: Niels BohrTopics: Age, Famous
I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Age, Famous
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Age, Famous, Wisdom
I’m 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that’s it. I don’t think I’ll ever be hip again!
Author: Brad PittTopics: Age, Famous
When I was 4, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
Author: Billie EilishTopics: Age, Famous
I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.
Author: Diego MaradonaTopics: Age, Famous, Happy
Whether I’m 40, 50 or 60, I’m going to be as physically strong as I am able.
Author: Carl LewisTopics: Ability, Age, Famous
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
Author: Amitabh BachchanTopics: Ability, Accept, Age, Famous
Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.
Author: Upton SinclairTopics: Age, Live, Unlimited
That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Advantages, Age, Famous, Feelings, Life, Mastery, Meaningful
The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Age, Existence, Famous, Mystery
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.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Age, Famous, Respect, Youth
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.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Age, Famous, Living, Perfect
Lately, my sexual fantasies revolved around once again having a landlord. Looks, age, and hygiene didn’t matter, as long as he had a tool belt and said, Don’t worry, I’ll fix it.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Age, Famous, Landlord, Personal Hygiene, Sexual
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Throw
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Genius, Hold, Life, Meaningful, Wonderful
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nature
Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Age, Country, Famous, Merits, Revolutionary
[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Age, Famous, Habit, Opinion
In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they’ve made and why they’ve made them, to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Age, Famous, Leaders, Mistake, Public, Relations, Visible
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Age, Conservative, Famous, Grew Up, Health, Home, Neighborhoods, Parents
It’s possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don’t appreciate how tough your elders had it. It’s true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Restriction
One line I’d draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn’t. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they’ll get penalized with lower benefits.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Age, Famous, Income, Lowered, Medicare, People, Social security, Sound
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
Author: Thom MayneTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Longer, Meaningful, Solution
A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
Author: Gail CarrigerTopics: Age, Famous, Lady, Never, Revealed, True, Vampire
You’re never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn’t matter at all. If it’s something you want to do, it depends on your will
Author: Thia MegiaTopics: Age, Depends, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Passion, Really, Want, Young
Since the age of three I have refused God nothing
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, God, Life, Meaningful, Refuse
In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age.
Author: Harry KaneTopics: Age, Famous, Football, Grow up, Mature, People, Quickly, Soccer
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
Author: Kacey MusgravesTopics: Age, Famous, Feeling, Friends, Inferior, Singing
I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people’s understanding can expand more easily.
Author: Kabir BediTopics: Age, Expand, Famous, Influence, Information, Internet, People’s, Understanding
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Age, Busy, Famous, Look, Meaningful, Read, Time
I’m nearly 50. I’m past being photographed falling out of bars.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Age, Falling, Famous
In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Age, College, Famous, Feelings, Intelligence, Meaningful, Producing, School, Stupidity
Writing is a form of resistance against oblivion
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Forgive, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Try, Trying
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Age, Alone, Famous, Hell, Left, Lord, Published, Reason, World
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Ignorance, Life, Meaningful, System
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Free, Generation, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Vanity
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Age, Division, Famous, Mankind, Prejudice, Purity, Race
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Age, Christian, Church, Famous, Feelings, Individual, Life, Meaningful, New, Positive, Rediscover, Return, Source
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Age, Dignity, Famous, History, Legend
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Age, Famous, Grow, Heart
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Age, Distrust, Doctrine, Famous, Humor, Old, Wisdom
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Age, Reformation, Revolution, War
Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.
Author: Gabrielle CarterisTopics: Age, Dying, Famous, Living
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I’m pushing 40, I guess I look closer to… 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don’t have one of those.
Author: Gabriel MannTopics: Age, Famous, Looks, Macrobiotic diet
Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
Author: Gabriel MannTopics: Age, Famous, People, Remember, Self-forgetfulness
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Frequently, Judgement, Life, Maturity, Meaningful, Most, Often, Perspective, Unfair, Unjust, Youth
I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I’m not proud of it. But I was always against society
Author: Evel KnievelTopics: Age, Proud, Proudest moments, Prove, Safe, Safe choices, Societal Values, Society
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.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Age, Famous, Grown Up, Health, Inspirational, Late, Life, Meaningful, Search, Seek, Soul, Wisdom, Young
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Age, Old Story, Older, Oldest, Punish, Punishment, Sudden, Suffer, Suffering
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
Author: G. Stanley HallTopics: Age, Alive, Civilization, Disease, Famous, Hard, Inspirational
We all have souls of different ages.
Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldTopics: Age, Famous, Life, Meaningful
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Age, Content, Famous, Fireside, Inspirational, Meaningful, Place
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Age, Famous, Fireside, Inspirational, Life, Look, Meaningful, Place, Simply
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Age, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Submit, Youth
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Age, Always, Europe, Famous, Forever, Glory, Inspirational, Meaningful, sophisters, Succeed, Succeeded
This is not yet a scientific age.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Age, Famous, Meaningful, People, Positive, Scientific
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
Author: George HerbertTopics: Age, Famous, Idle, Inspirational, People, Positive, Youth
If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that it would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.
Author: G. H. HardyTopics: Age, Decent, Famous, Mathematician, Mathematics, Opportunity, Real, Sacrifice
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.
Author: Coco ChanelTopics: Age, Die, Idea of Freedom, Ideal woman, Idealistic, Love Life, Loved, Lovely, Matter, Mature, Maturity
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
Author: R. Buckminster FullerTopics: Age, Famous, Life, Meaningful
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Age, Ambition, Famous, Meaningful, Opportunity, Profession
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Age, Famous, Heresy, Orthodoxy, Others
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.
Author: Pablo PicassoTopics: Age, Disease, Everyone, Everything, Famous, People
Now I’m more behaved, I think it’s age, you get older, more responsible, more quiet. But if I would want to dye my hair, for example red or blue, be sure that I’ll dye it.
Author: NeymarTopics: Age, Famous, Meaningful, Older
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Age, Condition, Kind, Kindles, Limitation, Limited Capacity, Own, Own actions, Perception
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Age, Children, Famous, Individuals, Inspirational, Philosophy, World
Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTopics: Age, Compassion, Famous, Inspirational, Praise, Tell, Unable, Wife
As sooth is said, age hath great advantage, / In eld is both wisdom and experience.
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTopics: Age, Experience, Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Age, Famous, Inspirational, Perseverance
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Age, Famous, Gun, Juveniles, Raising
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Age, Famous, Life, Price, Wisdom
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Age, Drinking Alcohol, Famous, Feelings, Life, Mature, Meaningful, Milk
Live your life and forget your age.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Ability, Age, Famous, Feelings, Forget, Life, Meaningful
I went hard for the chips ’cause the odds were against us.
Author: Nipsey HussleTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Hard, Life, Meaningful
Obviously, from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I’ve been holdin’ my own since that age
Author: Nipsey HussleTopics: Age, Childhood, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Streets, Teenage
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d’etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age ‘proper living’ means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression
Author: Angela DavisTopics: Ability, Age, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Philosophical, Philosophy, Planning, Positive, Problem, Teach, Thinking, Thoughts, World
Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea
Author: Andy WarholTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Idealistic, Life, Looking, Meaningful
In the playoffs, nobody cares about how old you are or what you’ve been through.
Author: LeBron JamesTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Past accomplishments, Playoffs games
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do
Author: Andrew CarnegieTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivates
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Author: Ambrose BierceTopics: Act, Age, Expected, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Light, Meaningful
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nation
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Age, Careful, Child, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Look, Lose, Meaningful
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
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Age, Change, Different, Experiences, Facts, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Lesson, Level, Life, Meaningful
Distrust unsolicited advice
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Advice, Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
And even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Author: AeschylusTopics: Age, Calm, Everybody, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Forget, God, Heart, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Pain, Religion, Sleep, Wisdom
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old
Author: AeschylusTopics: Ability, Age, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Learning, Life, Meaningful, Older, Yourself, Youth
Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Old, Positive, Young
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Prejudice
Even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
Author: Alan WattsTopics: Age, Everything, Famous, Feelings, Life, Live, Opinion, Ourselves, Outcome
You know you’re an adult when you get excited about a new sponge
Author: Adam sandlerTopics: Age, Famous, Feelings, Life
To seek forgiveness in old age is good but to seek it when young is better.
Author: Abu BakrTopics: Age, Famous, Life
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
Author: Abraham LincolnTopics: Act, Activities, Age, Challenging, Experiences, Experiment, Famous, Feelings, Life
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
Author: A.P.J. Abdul KalamTopics: Age, Famous, Life
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
Author: Mahmoud DarwishTopics: Age, Control, Emotion, Passed
That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.
Author: Walt DisneyTopics: Age, Creative, Curiosity, Famous, Humor, Imagination, Innocence, Loss, Philosophy
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.
Author: Walt DisneyTopics: Age, Creative, Dream, Famous, Happiness, Imagination, Journey, Joy, Life, Reality, Time