- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
- High Standard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.
- Nov 07, 2020
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
- Armstrong
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020