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" Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. "

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" Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. "

Martha Gellhorn

" The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. "

" There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. "

Michael Hutchence

" I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working. "

" The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? "

" To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. "

" Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. "

" For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back. "

" The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts. "

" New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. "

" My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's Dead.' How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12? "

" I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.' "

" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

Thomas Jefferson

" There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. "

" As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. "

" The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids. "

" Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. "

William Feather

" It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work. "

Chirlane McCray

" Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. "

" The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them. "

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

" I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same. "

" We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. "

" Age merely shows what children we remain. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age - to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis. "

" With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age. "

" Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. "

" I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. "