Aging Quotes - Page 38

• One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Imagination, Age

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• Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

  Martha Ostenso

  Death, Drawing, Independence

  Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd

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• Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Thinking, Age, Roles

  Margaret M. Lock (1994). “Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

  Jennifer Stone

  Watches, Growing, Forgiven

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
  Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

  N.D. Wilson

  Summer, Mother, Self

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• I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

  Emma Watson

  Perfect, Excited, Process

  "Emma Watson criticises 'dangerously unhealthy' pressure on young women". Interview with Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

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• From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  Drew Barrymore

  Perspective, Age, Lucky

  Interview with Elle, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

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• If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Morning, Drama, Independent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Flower, Lapses, Looks

  "Why We Love Sarah Jessica Parker" by Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. December 2, 2010.

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• The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying.

  Bobbi Brown

  Hair, Color, Natural

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• Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.

  Jack Zipes

  Girl, Children, Loss

  Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge

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• If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

  Jeff Bezos

  Forever, Needs, Obsolete

  "Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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• There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

  Robin Sharma

  Cures

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.51, Jaico Publishing House

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• Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'

  Dennis Prager

  New York, White, People

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• Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

  Dennis Prager

  Issues, White, Males

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• I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Medicine, Foundation, Problem

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

  Jim Cooper

  Oxygen, Blood, Law

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• Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

  Paul Stamets

  Smart, Mushrooms, Firsts

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• If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Use, Way, Study

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• Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Numbers, Risk, Age

  "Geneticist Cynthia Kenyon is heading to Google" by Stephanie M. Lee, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2014.

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• Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Imagine, Slow Down, Genes

  "How Do You Make An Elderly Worm Feel Young Again?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 22, 2015.

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• Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

  Erin McKean

  Dying, Has Beens

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• The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

  Dan Buettner

  Reality, People, Pedals

  Dan Buettner (2012). “The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest”, p.4, National Geographic Books

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• Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, People, Denial

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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