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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

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.

Quotes by Derf

Living
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Nov 07, 2020

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Quotes by Derek Jacobi

Nov 07, 2020

For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

Quotes by Derek Jeter

Nov 07, 2020

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

Quotes by Derek Luke

Had
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Nov 07, 2020

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Quotes by Dennis Potter

Grow
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Nov 07, 2020

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Quotes by Dennis Prager

Face
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Nov 07, 2020

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

Quotes by Dennis Quaid

Woman
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Nov 07, 2020

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Quotes by Denzel Washington

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

Quotes by Dennis Haysbert

Nov 07, 2020

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

Quotes by Dennis Haysbert

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

When it comes to foods as we age, it is a good rule of thumb to focus on high-quality, whole, fresh foods as the basis of all your meals.

Quotes by Denise Austin

Nov 07, 2020

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

Quotes by Denise Van Outen

Painting
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Nov 07, 2020

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Quotes by Denis Diderot

Present
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Nov 07, 2020

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.

Quotes by Denis Leary

Nov 07, 2020

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

Quotes by Denis Leary

Father
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Nov 07, 2020

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Quotes by Delmore Schwartz

My Life
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Nov 07, 2020

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Quotes by Delta Goodrem

Women
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Nov 07, 2020

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Quotes by Demi Moore

A sports quote notes how loyalty in a career has shifted with a changing era, while another traces a personal timeline back to a specific birth year and place. See also Good and Love.

Age Quotes

On the ages we pass through.

A sports quote notes how loyalty in a career has shifted with a changing era, while another traces a personal timeline back to a specific birth year and place. See also Good and Love.

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