Age Norms Quotes

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage.

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!

There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.