Quotes about age
age decay innocence
But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away Samuel Johnson
age sound nuclear
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo
age turns ifs
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. Rumer Godden
age rewards needs
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. Rufus Wainwright
agency air tree
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees. Ronald Reagan
age old-saying wot
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. Robert Jordan
age entering needs
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one. Robert Johnson
age stories might
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. Roddy Doyle
age statistics computer
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Robert Solow
age youth aging
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. Robert Southey
age culture faces
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. Robert Payne
age sense-of-humor jokes
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.
age youth illusion
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. Robert Louis Stevenson
age safe belief
Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another. Robert Louis Stevenson
age sides may
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson
age tilt stones
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. Robert Louis Stevenson
age facts cold
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age. Robert Louis Stevenson
age world morality
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said. Robert Evans
age
Leadership doesn't come from age. Tony Gonzalez
age folks old-age
old folks is the nation. Toni Cade Bambara
age information irony
The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. Stephen Coonts
age together roles
When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends. Stephen Collins
age world reliability
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it. Vannevar Bush
agency providence sovereignty
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty. Tryon Edwards
age proud
I actually feel very proud of my age. Sutton Foster
age aging teach
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles
age deeds looks
If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds. Sophocles
age aging good-things
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead! Stephen Leacock
age may information
It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom. Stephanie Mills
age used autographs
I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
age harmony creation
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. Sophie Swetchine
age demand needs
…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror. Thomas Mann
age world duration
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation. Thomas Malthus