Age Quotes - page 7

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I must confess, I was born at a very early age. View quote
Groucho Marx
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. View quote
Candice Bergen
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. View quote
Judy Garland
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. View quote
John Lennon
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves. View quote
Michael Shermer
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. View quote
Blaise Pascal
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. View quote
Vivien Leigh
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. (William O. Douglas)
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. View quote
Colin Powell
The age of miracles is forever here. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin. View quote
Vangelis
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. View quote
Karel Čapek
Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. View quote
Christian Dior
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. View quote
Françoise Sagan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. View quote
Robert Jordan
Now is the age of anxiety. View quote
W. H. Auden
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. (Peace Pilgrim)
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age, is to sleep At an attack. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed. View quote
Samuel Johnson
An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away. View quote
Samuel Johnson