Ageism Quotes

If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is 40, he is not worth much.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

Youth is wasted on the young.

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

A young man under twenty-five who is not a Socialist has no heart, one above twenty-five who remains a Socialist has no head.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

We treat old people like we treat animals—just put them in a cage somewhere until they die.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

Never let an old person live in your body.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

When you age, you can do all kinds of roles. You don't have to look great. You can be the mom, the aunt. You can have a small part. You're an actor.

It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." "You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out. Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I don't think that I'm old.

Maybe at 55, I would like to direct. I will go the Angelina Jolie way.