Getting Old Quotes - Page 7

• You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Understanding, Gathering, Band

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.

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• And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grieving, People, Sick

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan

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• What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Reality, Matter, Crux

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Truth Is, Said, Sigh

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• It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, People, Sick

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Summer, Easter, Pain

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• I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

  David Thewlis

  Jobs, Worry, Insecurity

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

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• I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

  Jermain Defoe

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

  Randy Alcorn

  Getting Older, Bigger, Humans

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers”, p.33, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

  Norman Jewison

  Character, Thinking, People

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• You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

  Noel Gallagher

  People, Age, Ribs

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• I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

  George Burns

  Believe, People, Worry

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• That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

  Stephen Bayley

  Role Models, Getting Older, Roles

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

  Erin Andrews

  Lying, Getting Older, Grit

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

  Joy Behar

  Beautiful, Talking, Getting Older

  "Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance". Interview with Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2008.

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• When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Party, Journey, Lucky To Be Alive

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• I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Getting Older, Age, One Day

  "Comic-Con 2011: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Andrew Niccol Interview IN TIME". Press conference, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

  Shirley MacLaine

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• It's weird how people hate getting older.

  Dan Deacon

  Hate, People, Getting Older

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

  Stan Musial

  Summer, Thinking, Years

  "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

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• How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

  Gail Parent

  Mother, Feels, Ifs

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

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• We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.

  Terri E Apter

  Mistake, Numbers, People

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• Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Growing Up, Interesting, Horrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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