927 private quotes tagged age

“Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.”— Marian Wright Edelman

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”— William Wordsworth

“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.”— Thomas Browne

“In my old age, I'll be in L.A.”— David Hockney

“At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.”— Rod Stewart

“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.”— George Clooney

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”— Willa Cather

“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.”— Phyllis Diller

“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.”— John Polkinghorne

“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”— Brian Clough

“I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.”— William J. Clinton

“My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.”— Rachel Roy

“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.”— Nadia Comaneci

“I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.”— Rod Stewart

“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.”— Flannery O'Connor

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

“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.”— Dee Dee Myers

“I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.”— Alexander McQueen

“When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.”— Jason Kidd

“The surest sign of age is loneliness.”— Annie Dillard

“In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.”— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.”— John Mayer

“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”— Warren Beatty