Growing Old Quotes - Page 11

• In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Wise, Growing

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• Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Christmas, Hate, Loneliness

  "The Spirit of Christmas". Book by Henry Van Dyke, December 31, 1987.

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• The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Mistake, Growing, Advantage

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• Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

  Ruth Rendell

  Light, Growing, Invisible

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• I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, People

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763)

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• I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

  Melanie Laurent

  Growing, Want, Scared

  "French Made: Interview With Mélanie Laurent". Interview with Katya Foreman, wwd.com. May 27, 2009.

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• When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Snow, Thrill, Growing

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• It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Appreciation, Sadness, Different

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• I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

  George Wald

  Growing, Speak, My Future

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• No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

  Sophocles

  Growing

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• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

  Earl Warren

  Years, People, Upset

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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• So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

  Joseph Hergesheimer

  Long, Growing, Aging

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• Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

  Desmond Tutu

  Reading, Home, Writing

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces retirement from public life" by Xan Rice, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

  Julie Burchill

  Suicide, Hollywood, Growing

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• We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

  Max De Pree

  Growing, Cold

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• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Purpose, Growing

  1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell inThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).

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• One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

  E. W. Howe

  Historical, Age, Growing

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• Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

  George Clooney

  Heart, Growing, Screens

  "George Clooney On Acting, Fame, And Putting Down Your Cellphone Camera". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 9, 2012.

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• Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

  Aeschylus

  Time, Hunting, Growing

  "Eumenides". Play by Aeschylus,

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• I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

  Ben Gibbard

  Mean, Listening, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

  Charlie Brotman

  Ideas, Growing, Wonderful

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

  Gabrielle Bell

  Artist, Attention, Serious

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

  Groucho Marx

  Lucky, Growing, Ifs

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• Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

  Mark Hart

  Complaining, Growing, Privilege

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.19, Franciscan Media

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• Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

  John Mellencamp

  Death, Growing Up, Fun

  Song: Authority Song

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