Best 7157 quotes in «age quotes» category

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient French colony come and do that is a little critical of our education system back home. Balzac is definitely over their heads. It's meant to be funny also because it would be also probably too much for kids in France, but kids in France would know who Balzac is. But, back home at that age, I guarantee you they don't know who he is.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head.

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

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.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.