I was never the best in my age group. I was like the Ugly Duckling because I am not beautiful to see but I always improved. That is my best skill.
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It's a little dangerous.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Being seventy is not a sin.
When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.