927 private quotes tagged age

“The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.” — Carl Hiaasen

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“I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.” — Ann-Margret

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“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.” — John Stamos

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“I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.” — Dan Stevens

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“When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.” — Ben Barnes

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“You just never know when you're living in a golden age.” — Alexander Payne

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“I feel like women are asked their age more than men.” — Kristen Wiig

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“Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.” — Mitch Daniels

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“Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.” — John Legend

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“It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.” — Julie Walters

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“You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.” — Idris Elba

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“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.” — Lydia M. Child

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“I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.” — Bob Geldof

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“I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.” — James Ellroy

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“The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.” — Florida Scott-Maxwell

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“I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.” — Bob Geldof

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“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.” — Felix Frankfurter

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“I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.” — Joyce Maynard

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“Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.” — Brigham Young

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“If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.” — Donna Mills

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“Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.” — Anne Tyler

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“The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.” — Steve Irwin

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“Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.” — Doug Coupland

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