Age Quotes

The savings of the average family, the capital of the small-businessmen, the investments set aside for old age - other people's money - these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in.

It surely must be one of the great ironies of our age that this august Assembly is addressed, for the first time in its 49 years, by a South African Head of State drawn from among the African majority of what is an African country.

In every age and every generation men have dreamed of some promised land of fulfillment of freedom. Whether it was the right promised land or not, they dreamed of it.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

We desire to see the return of a liberal age where Parliaments will guard freedom, where science will open the banqueting halls to the millions, and where what Bismarck once called "practical Christianity" will mitigate suffering and misfortunes.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

When you're young, you don't have any experience-you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that's legal, I'm down with. Yo, I'm down with any adult - anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

I'm growing older, but not up.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.