Age Quotes - Page 40

• I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, Thinking, Remember

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.

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• My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

  Andy Kaufman

  Mother, Brother, Boys

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• Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

  Twiggy

  Free Spirit, Boring, Mets

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• No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it's being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn't have as much experience as you. If you're passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.

  Josh Groban

  Mentor, Passionate, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Cycling, Wake Up, World

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• Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kindness, Universal, Nationality

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• To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Character, Years, Play

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• I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

  Debbie Harry

  Feelings, Driven, Felt

  "Debbie Harry: 'I'm sort of a cult figure'" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2011.

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• A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

  Nick Cannon

  Girl, Spiritual, Silly

  "Nick Cannon" by Corrie Pikul, www.elle.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed.

  Daniel L. Akin

  Powerful, Blessed, Heart

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• At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Trying, Pitfalls, Outcomes

  "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.

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• According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.

  Wayne Mack

  Church, Together, Alive

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• I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Men, Boring

  "FOR THE LOVE OF LAGERFELD / Maverick designer's new line inspired by the energy of New York" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2006.

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• There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been evolved to fight the Nazis - were themselves very much in the Nazi ideal. The idea that you can solve problems through physical strength, by being stronger and more dominant and more powerful - that is fascism. I mean, that's it, that's the essence of fascism. I don't think the creators of the superheroes or the kids who were reading them at the time were the slightest bit aware of it.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Children, Spirit

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Men, Mind, Bed

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Gold

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• On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Long Ago, World

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

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• Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

  Wendy Davis

  Sex, School, Appropriate

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. June 28, 2013.

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• In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

  Pico Iyer

  Attention, Distraction, Feels

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Diversity, Restoration

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• What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Thinking, Make You Think, Special

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.116, Penguin

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• Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

  Chris Wedge

  Ice, Scripts, Firsts

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• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Hard Work, Midwest, Young

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• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Should Have, Progress

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

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