927 private quotes tagged age

“With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.” — Chris Brown

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“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.” — Frances Conroy

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“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” — Albert Einstein

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“Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.” — Francis Bacon

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“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.” — Karl Marx

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“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.” — Tony Robbins

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“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.” — George Santayana

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“God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.” — John Donne

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“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.” — John Henrik Clarke

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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball

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“Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.” — Mia Wasikowska

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“Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.” — Edward Weston

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“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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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.” — Anna Kendrick

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“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.” — Christopher Walken

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“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” — Bette Midler

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“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.” — Bo Bennett

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“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” — Andre Maurois

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“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.” — Estelle Getty

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“The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.” — Mindy Kaling

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