Age Quotes - Page 4

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I’ve known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

One is never too late to become young at heart.

In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, 'It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise'.

The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.

In this day and age, there is a special mandate for every one of us to be in-charge of our lives by sitting at the driver's seat of our lives. Rule your world!

We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep.It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.

Be charming at any age.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

Even preschoolers have their own politics

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.

Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)

We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.

I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.

You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

I am aware I sound like a Marxist Victor Meldrew but, guess what, I'm over 50 and I don't give a fuck.

People who have the most birthdays live the longest.

Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word “hundred” meant, but when numbers wandered off toward “thousand”—or even “million”—and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan’s mind shied back in horror.

You are old and grey,” she teased.“And you’re never too immortal for a spanking,” he shot back...

The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away.

With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.

And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us.

He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts.

Because I’ve gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life on them. The creases and folds in his body were testament to the cruelty that he had been subjected to in this world. The watery eyes screamed of the pain, the agonising wait to leave this godforsaken place forever, that had given him nothing but pleadings for mercy.