Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

Related Quotes:

" In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. "

" Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. "

" High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. "

" As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. "

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

" Age is inevitable. Aging isn't. "

" The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. "

" Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world. "

" The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. "

" We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. "

" Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. "

" Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. "

Bertrand Russell

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine. "

" Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there. "

George Harrison

" Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. "

" To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be. "

Make A Difference

" Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. "

" No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change. "

" My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. "

" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "

" If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50. "

" Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect. "

" I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age! "

" Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal. "

" Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! "

Pierre Corneille

" I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. "