927 private quotes tagged age

“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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“The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.” — Francis Parker Yockey

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“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.” — Alan Bleasdale

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“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.” — Don Marquis

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“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“Where children are, there is the golden age.” — Novalis

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“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.” — Carol Burnett

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“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?” — James Hillman

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“The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.” — Jane Fonda

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“I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.” — Florence Welch

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“Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.” — Tom Peters

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“I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.” — Anna Kendrick

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“The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“Age is how we determine how valuable you are.” — Jane Elliot

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“I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.” — Saul Williams

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“One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.” — Joshua Foer

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“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.” — Rachel Bilson

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“Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.” — Ron Perlman

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“IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

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“Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.” — Paul Feig

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