Age Quotes

"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime." Johnny Ball

"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime." Johnny Ball

"I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age." Mick Jagger

"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death." Edith Wharton

"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory." A. C. Benson

"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life." Paul Cezanne

"I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible." Mia Hamm

"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives." Martha Gellhorn

"What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop." Bono

"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave." Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers." Dave Barry

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them." Russell Baker

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man." John Kenneth Galbraith

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man." Lyndon B. Johnson

"I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys." Willie Nelson

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence." Arsene Wenger

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew." Robert Browning

"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days." Gore Vidal

"From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash." Sophie Tucker

"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch." Marshall McLuhan

"Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?" Casey Stengel

"Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve." Christopher Hitchens

"This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it." David Brinkley

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason." Friedrich Durrenmatt

"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday." Noel Coward

"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head." Rita Rudner

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it." Brigitte Bardot

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?" Desiderius Erasmus

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost." Michel Foucault

"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking." Mason Cooley