Getting Old Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

  Betty Friedan

  Adventure, Getting Older, Problem

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• It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

  Emile Coue

  Years, Ideas, Numbers

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• I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, Getting Older, May

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• I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.

  Ray Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  Olivia Williams

  Wrinkles, Getting Older, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

  Kevin Nealon

  Fall, Getting Older, Causes

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• Every fight I mature. I'm getting older. I'm maturing as a man. I'm maturing more inside the ring, but at the end of the day I'm still Adrien Broner. I'm still that kid who's living his dream and I'm just having fun.

  Adrien Broner

  Dream, Fun, Motivation

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• One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Pregnancy

  "It's Bad for Ya". Comedy album by George Carlin, 2008.

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• You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

  Bernie Mac

  Home, Years, Games

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• What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Responsibility, Men

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

  Susan Sontag

  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.519, Vintage

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• I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I rememver that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke.

  Sara Gruen

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, May 26, 2006.

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• Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

  Cate Blanchett

  Kids, Laughing, Worry

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

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• I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

  Alberto Tomba

  Bad Ass, Night, Getting Older

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• Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Heart, Aging, Faint Of Heart

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• Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

  Stevie Nicks

  Life, Children, Ocean

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• I may be getting old, but not foolish.

  Elia Kazan

  Stupid, May, Foolish

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• I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.

  Delvene Delaney

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love Is

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• Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

  Billy Cannon

  Death, Years, Getting Older

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• I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

  Penn Jillette

  Mom, Ideas, Bothered

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

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• I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

  Felix Dennis

  Giving, Let Me, Objects

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

  Susan Sontag

  Learning, Mean, One Day

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• You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hair, Facts, Losing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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