We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myse...
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustai...
Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter...
It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
