Age famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
-- A. B. Simpson -
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
-- A. C. Benson -
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
-- A. R. Rahman -
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
-- A. Scott Berg -
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
-- Abbi Glines -
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
-- Abel Ferrara -
[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
-- Abraham Cowley -
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
-- Ace Frehley -
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
-- Adam Brody -
I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
-- Adam Carolla -
Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
-- Adam Ross -
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
-- Ade Edmondson -
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
-- Adolf Eichmann -
We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
-- Adolf Hitler -
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
-- Adora Svitak -
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
-- Adora Svitak -
I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.
-- Adora Svitak -
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
-- Adrian Belew -
My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
-- Agatha Christie -
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
-- Agatha Christie -
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
-- Agatha Christie -
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!
-- Akshay Kumar -
For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
-- Akshay Kumar -
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
-- Al Bernstein -
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
-- Al Purdy -
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
-- Al Sharpton -
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
-- Al Sharpton -
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
-- Alain de Botton -
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
-- Alain de Botton -
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
-- Alain de Botton -
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
-- Alan Alda -
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
-- Alan Ball -
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
-- Alan Blinder -
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
-- Alan Jackson -
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
-- Alan Lightman -
As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.
-- Alan Shearer -
Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
-- Albert Brooks -
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
-- Albert Camus -
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
-- Albert Camus -
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
-- Albert Camus -
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
-- Albert Camus -
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
-- Albert Einstein -
"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."
-- Albert Einstein -
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.
-- Albert Ellis -
It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
-- Albert Finney -
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.
-- Albert Gubay -
I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.
-- Albert Kesselring -
Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
-- Albert Outler -
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
-- Aldous Huxley -
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
-- Alec Baldwin -
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
-- Alec Douglas-Home -
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
-- Alex Berenson -
If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.
-- Alex Borstein -
The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.
-- Alex Comfort -
Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
-- Alex Ferguson -
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
-- Alex Flinn -
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
-- Alex Shakar -
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
-- Alexa Vega -
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
-- Alexander Fleming -
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
-- Alexander Payne -
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
-- Alexander Payne -
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
-- Alexander Pope
