Age Quotes - Page 32

• When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Expression, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.349

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• It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

  Sela Ward

  Worry, Looks, Losing

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• Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

  Ann-Margret

  Fighting, Progression, Natural

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• Professionally, I have no age.

  Kathleen Turner

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• I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Stupid, Thinking, Slow Down

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• Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

  Joan Armatrading

  Persons

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• We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Giving, Growth, Vision

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• Sex appeal is in your heart and head. I'll be sexy no matter how old or how my body changes.

  Sonia Braga

  Sexy, Heart, Body

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• Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  Stephen Spender

  People, Alive, Want

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• Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

  Salvador Dali

  People, Too Much, Forty

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• The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

  Clint Eastwood

  Littles, Able, Losing

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• Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

  Ellen Goodman

  Loss, Lines, Accumulation

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think age is an ugly process. I think age is a beautiful thing. I love wrinkles. I don't like falling down. If I just wrinkle, I may not touch. If I fall down, I'll lift up.

  Linda Evangelista

  Beautiful, Fall, Thinking

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• Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

  Barry Bonds

  Care, May, How You Feel

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• I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

  Harrison Ford

  Effort

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• Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Growth, Doe, Needs

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1976). “Aging”, Image

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• Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

  David Oliver Relin

  People, Folks, 80s

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• Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Perspective, Helping, Harmony

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• The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

  Paul Dickson

  Comfort, Realization, Nine

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• The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.

  Clint Eastwood

  Kids, Work Out, Able

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• In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.

  Holly Hunter

  Nice, Hands, People

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• Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

  Rembrandt

  Crush, Creativity, Spirit

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• My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

  Edvard Munch

  Ideas, Deeds, Starting

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• According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Majority, Research

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