Growing Older Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.

  Barbra Streisand

  Appreciation, Believe, Men

  Source: barbra-archives.com

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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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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Self, Centeredness, World

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

  Christian Bale

  Honesty, Ideas, Stories

  "Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Bane & More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

  Alison Moyet

  Records, Growing, Want

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• Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Men, Age

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• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  Cat Power

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Growing, Firsts

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• I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

  Charles Kuralt

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Growing, Planets

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

  Antonio Banderas

  Morning, Eye, Night

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• Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Writing, Independent, Growing

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Age, Relief, Realization

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938). “Dithers and Jitters”

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• I prefer old age to the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Age, Alternatives, Aging

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• Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Growing, Disease

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• O Day after day we can't help growing older.
  Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
  Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
  Nor pity the flowers fallen.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, June

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• Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

  Kenny Rogers

  Upset, Age, Growing

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• Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

  Heather Brewer

  Growing Up, Growing, Optional

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• And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Advice, Trying, Growing

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1987, Dell

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• I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

  Meryl Streep

  Who I Am, People, Growing

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• Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

  Dennis Lehane

  Real, Hate, Winning

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• The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

  Bob Hope

  Long, Age, Growing

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• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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