- People
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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
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.
- Table
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not even Trump's father's wealth, nor his father's faith in his son's destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age of 13, he was shipped off to the New York Military Academy, which employed brutal tactics for the remaking of delinquent character, even resorting to violence to assert control over the boys.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020