Pastoral Resources

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!