Joseph Lancaster Quotes

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Early convictions must give way to more mature ones.

I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.

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.

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.

I generally don't think one's age is all that meaningful - there are 50-year-olds who still act and think like children.

The more you learn, the more becomes possible in life.

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.

Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.

Young people are our future, and I always want to help them to grow.