Age Vulnerability Quotes

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.

The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

I had racially prejudiced comments directed at me on different blogs. People think that just because you're in the spotlight, you're fair game. It's hard, and I don't think you're ready at any age for it. Thankfully, I have some great fans who got me through it.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

For many courtesans, it was over by age 22.

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.