Famous Quotes: Age

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
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I think it would be great if there were no age limit.
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My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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.
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I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
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