- 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
- Expectancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
- Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
With age comes wisdom.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020