Age quotes

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I don't care about age very much.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

Old age is the verdict of life.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.