There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.
Old age is a shipwreck.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.
If you want to age a lot of years, become president.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.
Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.
It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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.
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
In my career, I am so so happy and grateful for everything I've gotten to do. And yet, I wish I had started off earlier so I could, I don't know... I certainly have not not gotten work because of my age, but I'm just gonna pray and hope that the roles will still keep coming as I get older.
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.