Age of Quotes

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him that I wanted to be an eye and ear doctor.

If you can get a young person to the age of 18, 19 or 20 and they have not begun to smoke, it is unlikely they ever will.

In an age of instant gratification and superficial solutions to grave social ills, this cannot be emphasized enough.

Shoppers under the age of 35 are most likely to attend a party, compared to those aged 35 and older.

I'm not busy, ... A woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Byron came to grad school at the tender age of 43, and had some desire to become a professor and eventually did it. He was an interesting mix, he was a true bohemian in many respects.

My father lived through it and passed away at the age of 90. He used to tell the stories and break down and cry.

This is the patent age of new inventions/ For killing bodies, and saving souls,/ All propagated with the best of intentions.

If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.

Given the age of the population...it's not at all unexpected to see more deaths.

One thing about English-language bookstores in the age of Amazon is that it assumes that everybody has the Internet, ... I don't. I've never seen the Internet. I've never ordered a book on it, and I wouldn't really want to.

There was Vaughany in 1990 collar up, very calm, tall, dignified, imposing and already cerebral at the age of 15, long and angular, but always with a jokey disposition.

We need to understand that children start following athletics at the age of nine or ten. These beer ads are highly appealing to them. When beer companies say their ads aren't directed at young people, I find it hard to believe. Do you think the kids don't like the lizards on the Budweiser spots?

I've seen my practice mature and probably 50 percent to 60 percent of the pregnancies are over the age of 35, especially over 40.

I also have five children at home, all under the age of 10. So needless to say, we keep busy.

Every woman over the age of 20 should know what her risk factors are of heart disease. And we were really surprised to find out in our research last year that 50% of the women that attended our event had abnormal levels of risk factors and didn't know it.

The email and storage markets are converging in the age of compliance. If you can't backup and recover your email messages quickly, you can't meet information retrieval deadlines from regulators or prosecutors.

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

When my father died it left me without any financial support. At the age of fifteen I ran off to Buenos Aires with a passing musician who promised to make me a film star . But soon after the musician left, I managed to stay alive by playing small parts in the theatre and films .

Many young police were dead for working overtime, with the average age of the police dead on duty standing at 44.8.

The red and gold is a nice tribute. To the golden age of animation to today that she's red hot.

Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

A third of the children die before the age of five in Haiti and a lot of it is related to water illnesses.

Since I've been here we've brought a lot of young players through and signed players under the age of 24 and one thing we have lacked is experience and Tony has got that. He's a competitor and he knows the division.