You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
Habeeb AkandeTag: age men maturity masculinity mentality manhood state-of-mind
My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I’m older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.
Margaret AtwoodTag: age parents embarrassment
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.
Israelmore AyivorTag: wisdom age experience knowledge time self information leadership knowledge-power food-for-thought leader lead leading-by-example knowledge-wisdom leaders information-age leading informational wisdom-quote wisdom-inspirational wisdom-quotes era 21st-century leads-to dispense leadership-development israelmore-ayivor knowledgeable experiences-and-graces true-leaders true-leadership self-leaders self-leadership true-leader leads self-leader self-leadership-character inform dispensation false-leaders
A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: age death dependence diapers nappies old-age-homes
A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: age aging self-consciousness facelift
Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: age civilization exploitation aging employment retirement employee employer old-age-homes dumpsite senior-citizens
Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.
Paul TherouxTag: age travel gratitude concentration
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
Terry PratchettI could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She still wasn't sleeping well, but perhaps what I was seeing was just age, a gradual shift that I'd failed to register. I sometimes felt the urge to study recent photographs of her in order to locate the exact point in time when she had come to look so weary.
Karen Thompson WalkerShe said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.
Simon Van BooyTag: happiness age time memories
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