- Money
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
- Dominant Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
- Golden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where children are, there is the golden age.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
- Debated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020