Age Quotes - Page 36

• Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

  Marianne Williamson

  Expectations, World, Certain

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• I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
  By the known rules of ancient liberty,
  When straight a barbarous noise environs me
  Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

  John Milton

  Dog, Owl, Liberty

  'Sonnet' 12 'I did but prompt the age' (1673)

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• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  Fay Wray

  Children, Afterlife, Want

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• When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

  Marcel Proust

  Children, Soul, Riches

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• Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

  Tony Robbins

  Movement, Matter, Ultimate

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cost, Psychiatrist

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.62, Anchor

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• In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

  Laurie Garrett

  Care, Disease, Antibiotics

  Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9

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• The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Simple, Civilization

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.336, Read Books Ltd

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• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Ego

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Historical, Citizens

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• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

  Joseph Needham

  Real, Aztec, Achievement

  Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

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• Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

  Plato

  Faith, Opinion, Youth

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• With faith . . . we must walk to the edge of the light and into the darkness. As we so walk I testify and promise that the light will move. When I was your age and wondering some of the exact same things that you are now wondering, I never would have imagined that someday [we] would be at Ricks College serving as we are. . . . I know the light moves as we walk in faith to the edge of the light.

  David A. Bednar

  Faith, Moving, College

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• The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, Important

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.11, LSU Press

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• The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

  Horace Greeley

  Illusion

  The American Conflict ch. 1 (1864 - 1866)

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• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Creative, Misunderstood

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• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  Ursula Andress

  Thinking, Time To Think, Things To Do

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, edition.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

  Jeff Ross

  Achievement, Canada, Lasts

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• Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Saving, Abandon

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• I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.

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• Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

  Mark Twain

  Genius, Youth, Ripeness

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

  Kobe Bryant

  Player, Games, Cash

  "Kobe Right About Ego-and-Greed-Driven AAU Basketball" by Ken Reed, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2015.

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• A lot of people ask...why a man is willing to risk... Well, we've got to do it. We're going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen... If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.

  John Glenn

  Destiny, Men, People

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• It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, History, Individualism

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.336, Penguin

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