Gertrude Stein Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

• Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dark, Thinking, Civilization

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.102, Vintage

• The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mother, Country, War

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

• From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

  Gertrude Stein

  Progress, Age, Would Be

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

• I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

  Gertrude Stein

  Tired, Age, Way

  Gertrude Stein (1946). “Brewsie and Willie”

• From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

  Gertrude Stein

  Progress, Age

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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