Charlton Heston Quotes

I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

The rites and festivals of each nation shall remain undisturbed and shall continue as before because they were given by the people of old times as useful and necessary for the good of men

There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded.

If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

I don't want to age myself.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that.