There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.
I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’ve got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.
Now is the age of anxiety.
Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Mum didn’t have shoes. She was the eldest of 10 kids, and some nights they went without food. That’s why, from a young age, I wanted to work hard and change that cycle, to provide not only for my parents but my siblings, too.
My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
