Age Quotes - Page 24

• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Getting Older, Aging

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Looks, Youth

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

  Donald Justice

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Memorable, Elderly

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• Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

  Marshall Ganz

  Destiny, People, Hopeful

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• Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

  Caroline Norton

  Men, Graves, Old Time

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1840). “The Dream, and Other Poems”, p.236

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• My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Loneliness, Garden

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• Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jobs, Past, Weather

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• As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

  Logan Lerman

  People, Different, Roles

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• Nature is always behind the age

  Oscar Wilde

  Behinds

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.223, Oxford University Press

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• I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

  Patti Smith

  Flower, Greatness, Generations

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• The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

  Lillie Langtry

  Challenges, Enjoy, Persons

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• My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Dream, Art, Loneliness

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• If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

  David Selbourne

  One Day, May, Supervision

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• Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

  Max Lucado

  Stay Strong, Tests, Mess

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• A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

  James Russell Lowell

  Needs, Poet, Posterity

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ignorance, Self, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

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• At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

  Hemant Mehta

  Asking Questions, Atheism, Different

  Hemant Mehta (2009). “I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist's Eyes”, p.40, WaterBrook

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• What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

  Jessica Zafra

  Simple, Caution

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

  Don Cupitt

  Past, Reality, Years

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Spiritual, Military, Dark

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• If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Dark, Light

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.115, Zondervan

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• At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Book, Intelligent

  "BRK Annual Meeting 2007 Tilson Notes". Buffett FAQ, buffettfaq.com. 1998.

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• Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

  Ai Weiwei

  Names, Craziness

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