Age Quotes - Page 9

My age makes him nervous and shamey, cause his eyes keep heading southwards and then back up, guilty. I can tell I can make his eyes swirl and that's just about all I want to do.

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Twenty-seven.”His brow puckered, and he blinked over at her. “Twenty-seven hundred years, right?”If he were speaking to Taliyah, yes. “No. Just twenty-seven plain, ordinary years.”“You don’t mean human years, do you?”“No. I mean dog years,” she said dryly, then pressed her lips together. Where was the filter that was usually poised over her mouth? Strider didn’t seem to mind, though. Rather, he seemed stupefied. Would Sabin have had the same reaction were he awake? “What’s so hard to believe about my age?” As the question echoed between them, a thought occurred to her and she blanched. “Do I look ancient?”“No, no. Of course not. But you’re immortal. Powerful.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

Jessica Simpson

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you’re not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it.

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

I am older than your age and younger than your body.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

Charles Frazier

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Henry David Thoreau

The good thing about being old is not being young.

Stephen Richards

I am not young enough to know everything.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Gabriel García Márquez

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Chuck Palahniuk

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Garrison Keillor

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

Charles Bukowski

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

We have lunch at ten-forty-five,” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She still wasn't sleeping well, but perhaps what I was seeing was just age, a gradual shift that I'd failed to register. I sometimes felt the urge to study recent photographs of her in order to locate the exact point in time when she had come to look so weary.

Karen Thompson Walker

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

Cassandra Clare

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

George Bernard Shaw

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

James Lee Schmidt

You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much younger. Some people said it occurred when the most important thing that would ever happen to you triggered something inside that stopped you from moving forward.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.

Daniel Alarcón

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

Donna Lynn Hope

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

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