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Age

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

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. – David Ogilvy

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything. – Vivienne Westwood

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. – Birch Bayh

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

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. – Phoebe Cary

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. – Plautus

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. – William Ralph Inge

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

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. – Jock Sturges

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. – Helena Bonham Carter

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. – Margaret Walker

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. – Shimon Peres

We tried not to age, but time had its rage. – Pete Townshend

I want to age with some dignity. – Pete Townshend

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal. – Sienna Miller

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage. – Hesiod