Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: age

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Old age is no place for sissies.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn't imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just because I didn't know that many men who had lived beyond their 20s.

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.

I am really surprised bitcoin isn't more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn't tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

My father taught me poker at a very young age and I've been playing for money since I was 14 years old.

Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.

I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I'd be pretty happy about that.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.