Age Quotes - Page 33

• I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

  Elton John

  Giving Up, Years, Trying

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• Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

  May Sarton

  Light, Ascent, Illness

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• I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

  Judith Viorst

  Littles, Thighs, Cleavage

  Judith Viorst (2001). “Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I am luminous with age.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Luminous

  Meridel Le Sueur (1970). “Corn Village: A Selection”

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• It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

  Barbara Mertz

  Youth, Easier, Counterfeit

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• As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.

  Carl Jung

  Creative, Trying, Watches

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• I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, Add, Next

  "Nicholas Cage talks National Treasure!". Press conference in Los Angeles, movieweb.com. November 16, 2004.

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• That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Breathing Space, Giving, Purpose

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.601, Head of Zeus

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Getting Older, Surprise, Young

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Years do not always make age.

  George Sand

  Years

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.93

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• I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

  Ed Wynn

  Years, Calendars, Care

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• Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

  Charles Lamb

  Writing, Damn, Antiquity

  Charles Lamb (2013). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.381, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Too Late, Old You, Knows

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

  B. F. Skinner

  Country, Enjoy, Prepared

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• The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

  Craig Wilson

  Baby, America, Time Flies

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• Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

  Anderson Cooper

  Angel, Hair, Guy

  "Going gray" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 2003.

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• For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Letting Go, Art, Real

  Sherwin B. Nuland (2007). “The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being”, p.12, Random House

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• Yes, aging can be tough and rough... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

  Norman Corwin

  Sunset, Tough, Aging

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• What do years have to do with age?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Years

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Crazy, Thinking, Self

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• Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

  Brad Pitt

  Math, Youth, Trade

  "Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button" by Reed Johnson, articles.latimes.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

  John Elway

  Mortality, Reaching, My Own

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• We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, People, World

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• I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

  Robert Evans

  World, Morality, Remember

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• The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

  Russell Kirk

  Law, Land, Doe

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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