Quotes Temple Age Quotes

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

Paula Abdul
American Musician

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

King Abdullah II
Jordanian Statesman

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison
English Writer

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Theodor Adorno
German Philosopher

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Aeschylus
Greek Poet

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott
American Educator

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Amos Bronson Alcott
American Educator

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Alan Alda
American Actor

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Muhammad Ali
American Athlete

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Muhammad Ali
American Athlete

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall
American Actress

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon
English Philosopher

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker
American Journalist

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Russell Baker
American Journalist

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball
American Comedian

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Hosea Ballou
American Clergyman

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Roger Bannister
British Athlete

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

Roger Bannister
British Athlete

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Joseph Barbera
American Cartoonist

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot
French Actress

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot
French Actress

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

Herman Cain
American Businessman

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Michael Caine
English Actor

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

Maria Callas
American Musician

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Maria Callas
American Musician

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus
French Philosopher

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Liz Carpenter
American Writer

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

John Le Carre
English Writer

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John Le Carre
English Writer

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

John Le Carre
English Writer

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Angela Carter
English Novelist

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Angela Carter
English Novelist

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

Steve Case
American Businessman

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

Jean Claude Van Damme
Belgian Actor

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Claire Danes
American Actress

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies
Canadian Novelist

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Marvin Davis
American Businessman

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Christopher Dawson
English Writer

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Christopher Dawson
English Writer

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day
American Actress

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day
American Actress

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Austrian Novelist

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel
American Critic

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein
German Physicist

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein
German Physicist

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Jane Elliot
American Actress

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis
American Psychologist

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

James Ellroy
American Writer

All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Desiderius Erasmus
Philosopher

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

Julius Erving
American Athlete

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

Julius Erving
American Athlete

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving
American Athlete

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Will Estes
American Actor

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Siobhan Fahey
British Musician

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

Oriana Fallaci
Italian Journalist

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Jerry Falwell
American Clergyman

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

Suzanne Farrell
American Dancer

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather
American Author

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Colin Firth
British Actor

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Colin Firth
British Actor

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American Author

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

Jon Fishman
American Musician

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Victor Garber
Canadian Actor

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle
Leader

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Bob Geldof
Irish Actor

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

Bob Geldof
Irish Actor

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

Boy George
English Musician

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin
American Musician

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide
French Novelist

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

Merle Haggard
American Musician

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Larry Hagman
American Actor

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun
Norwegian Author

It is people's hearts that move the age.

Herbie Hancock
American Musician

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Tom Hanks
Actor

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy
English Novelist

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

Ben Harper
American Musician

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

Paul Harris
Entertainer

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"

Sydney J. Harris
American Journalist

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

Jeremy Irons
English Actor

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Irving
American Novelist

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving
American Writer

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Washington Irving
American Writer

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving
American Writer

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Steve Irwin
Australian Scientist

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Bo Jackson
American Athlete

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson
English Writer

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Derek Jacobi
British Actor

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Henry James
American Writer

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James
American Philosopher

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell
American Poet

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Joan Jett
American Musician

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Billy Joel
American Musician

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

Mike Johanns
American Politician

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

Magic Johnson
American Athlete

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Chuck Jones
American Director

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

Herman Kahn
American Scientist

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

Nancy Kerrigan
American Athlete

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Karl Lagerfeld
German Designer

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christine Lahti
American Actress

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Hedy Lamarr
Austrian Actress

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor
English Poet

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

Jessica Lange
American Actress

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

Lillie Langtry
British Actress

They say eyes clear with age.

Philip Larkin
English Poet

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson
American Cartoonist

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Christopher Lasch
American Historian

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Queen Latifah
American Musician

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

Avril Lavigne
Canadian Musician

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Timothy Leary
American Educator

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Joshua Lederberg
American Scientist

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur
American Soldier

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

James MacArthur
American Actor

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas B. Macaulay
English Historian

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald
Scottish Novelist

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian Novelist

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

Margaret Mahy
New Zealander Author

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

Hermann Maier
Austrian Athlete

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Miriam Makeba
South African Musician

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

Dan Marino
American Athlete

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis
American Poet

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis
American Poet

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Don Marquis
American Poet

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Ralph Nader
American Lawyer

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash
American Poet

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Jack Nicholson
American Actor

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis
German Poet

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Flannery O'Connor
American Author

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Maureen O'Hara
Irish Actress

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Michelle Obama
American First Lady

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Gary Oldman
English Actor

Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.

Mary-Kate Olsen
American Actress

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Kelly Osbourne
English Actress

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Satchel Paige
American Athlete

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Jean Paul
German Author

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Jean Paul
German Author

Live your life and forget your age.

Jean Paul
German Author

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI
Italian Clergyman

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Ron Perlman
American Actor

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

John Ratzenberger
American Actor

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Helen Reddy
Australian Actress

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Carl Sandburg
American Poet

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir
American Scientist

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer
American Theologian

Age considers; youth ventures.

Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Amber Tamblyn
American Actress

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

Amber Tamblyn
American Actress

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

Amy Tan
American Novelist

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson
American Journalist

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Emma Thompson
English Actress

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber
American Comedian

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman
American Poet

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Carrie Underwood
American Musician