Age Quotes

We’re not old enough to buy beer, what are we supposed to teach the world?

Or was it the elaborate trick of an old lady convincing herself that she had a past? After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. She may have been a girl once, but was not now. Her childhood was gone and nothing could fetch it back.

— How old are you?
— Seventeen.
— How long have you been seventeen?
— A while…

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

I’m perfectly all right. Yet there’s something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Childhood — the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

You're not getting any younger.

I was no longer a young man, though but twenty-one winters had chilled my bodily frame.