927 private quotes tagged age

“Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.” — Edward Weston

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“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.” — Doris Day

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“It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.” — Maggie Smith

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“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.” — Whitney Houston

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“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.” — Anna Kendrick

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“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.” — Harold Coffin

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“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” — Bo Bennett

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“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.” — Josh Radnor

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“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” — Andre Maurois

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“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” — Bette Midler

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“The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.” — Mindy Kaling

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“The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.” — Christopher Walken

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“Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.” — Mia Wasikowska

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“I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.” — Tiger Woods

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“Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.” — Sinclair Lewis

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“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” — Salvador Dali

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“A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.” — David Wilkerson

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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball

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“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” — Aphra Behn

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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” — Anais Nin

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