Ageing Quotes - Page 4

• We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

  Julie Bishop

  Often Is, Disease, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

  Julie Bishop

  Opportunity, Government, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

  William Boyd

  Tree, World, Growing

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• I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

  David Duchovny

  Book, Character, Blood

  "The X-Files: I Want To Believe - David Duchovny interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

  Gary Lineker

  Commitment, Pace, Footballer

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• The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

  Mark Barrowcliffe

  Self, Age, Reason

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• Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

  Juliette Binoche

  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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• Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.

  Camille Paglia

  Mom, Home, Emotional

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• There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Growth, Population

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Sleep and meditation are key. Natural sleep for 8 hours will help remove toxins from the body, help consolidate memory, create order from chaos. Sleep activates good hormones that are associated with rejuvenation and slowing down the ageing process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Sleep, Keys

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?

  Murray Bookchin

  Rights, Welfare Programs, People

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

  Julie Bishop

  Mean, Loss, Skills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

  David Baddiel

  Witty, Clever, Profound

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• All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Age, Bother, My Friends

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• (I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Player, Europe

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• I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

  Alan Ladd

  Men, Faces, Figures

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• The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

  Eric Roth

  Wish, Growing, Problem

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• Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Wise, Running

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• Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Numbers, Body, Damage

  "We don't have to get sick as we get older". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Cancer, Elderly, People

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• Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Body, Damage, Accumulation

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• Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Years, Apathy, Doe

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• Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

  Simon Barnes

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Mind Love, World

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Gratitude, Grateful, Years

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• Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

  Nora Ephron

  Fall, Years, People

  "Get real - ageing's not all Helen Mirren". Christopher Goodwin, The Times (UK), March 4, 2007.

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