Quotes about Perspective
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
— Anthony Browne
When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
— Mark Lowry
I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
— Oprah Winfrey
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
— Dolly Parton
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
— Vance Havner
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
— CS Lewis
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
— Oscar Wilde
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
— Charles Dickens
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!
— Gordon Hinckley
We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.
— James Franco