J. K. Rowling Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Family, Home

• Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

  J. K. Rowling

  Past, Age, Firsts

• One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reality, People, Greek

• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Age, Potters, Youth

• It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Age, Veils

• I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Years, Wish, Age

• Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humility, Two, People

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