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A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.

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.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.