Age Quotes - page 19

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly. (Seneca)
I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton. View quote
Willie Nelson
I'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me: This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. View quote
Joseph Addison
Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins. View quote
George W. Bush
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. View quote
William Saroyan
It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders. View quote
L. Frank Baum
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. View quote
John le Carré
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. View quote
John le Carré
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. View quote
Jon Stewart
As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days. View quote
Steven Pinker
All, all of a piece throughout Thy chase had a beast in view Thy wars brought nothing about Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. (John Dryden)
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. ... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. View quote
Frederick Douglass
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
In my days of youth, I remembered my God, And he hath not forgotten my age. View quote
Robert Southey
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice. View quote
Orson Scott Card
No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it's being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn't have as much experience as you. If you're passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world. View quote
Josh Groban
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around. View quote
Albert Finney
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. (Paul Nurse)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death. View quote
André Maurois
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. View quote
André Maurois