Quotes about Age
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
- William Wordsworth
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
- Vance Havner
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
- CS Lewis
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
- Ronald Reagan
Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
- Walt Whitman
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Samuel Johnson
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
- Charles Dickens
This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.
- Josh McDowell
The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
- Marianne Williamson
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.
- Mark Twain