Ashley Young Quotes

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

... there shall be no differences save by merit of character, by merit of ability, by merit of service to country. Those are the true tests of the value of any man or woman, white or coloured ...

Elect me for what I am, not for what I was born.

Ability and fitness for the office, where they exist, are as a rule, purely accidental. The selection is made primarily to strengthen the power of the party. This explains the principle by which appointments are parceled out to meet the alleged claims of particular political districts; it also explains the even more vicious principle by which race, nationality and creed often dictate the selection of Magistrates.

I had rather wise men to govern me, even though at times they should be severe, even fools. I care not where they come from, so they be men of sense and experience; let them be taken from the plough, from the mechanick’s bench, or from behind the counter.

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.

People tell me the 50s are the best time - I'm ready! That whole stigma of being over 40 and not being sexy anymore is fake news. We're more vibrant because we have experience; we know our bodies.

I think my perspective on my age is really irrelevant.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.