Age quotes

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

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.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.