Old You Quotes

• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Funny, Birthday, Health

  Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

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• It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

  Louise Hay

  Children, Acceptance, Needs

  Louise Hay (2016). “Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life”, p.49, Hay House, Inc

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• A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.

  Richard Branson

  Soul, May, Littles

  Twitter post from May 20, 2015

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• The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.

  Woody Shaw

  Music, Country, Rip

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  No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Kids, Phones, Hands

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• When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Aging, Young, Havens

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2011). “Cancer Ward”, p.392, Random House

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• It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Age, Too Late, Knows

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

  Steve Kluger

  Life, Giving Up, Believe

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.268, Penguin

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• When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hurt, Thinking, Years

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Government, Naps

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Love, Sight, Two

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.109, Grove Press

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• They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

  Karen White

  Sibling, Childhood, Matter

  Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.103, Penguin

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• Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Mets, Feels

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• You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Positive, Basketball, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.240, Profile Books

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• That depends on the man. I like breasts myself. A nice rack goes a long way in getting me to do just about anything. Even stupid things. (Phobos) You are so offensive! (Delphine) Oh, please, I’m ten thousand years old. You’re lucky I’m not more chauvinistic than I am. Babe, I’ve come a long way. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Stupid, Men

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• When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Thinking, Curves

  "I Don't Know How She Does It". Book by Allison Pearson, 2003.

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• Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Wrinkles, Names, Two

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.298, Penguin

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• When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

  Sara Gruen

  Age, Months, Firsts

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• If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growing, Awakening, Aging

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be.

  Julian Barnes

  Regret, Thinking, Ignorant

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.

  David Mamet

  Mistake, Years, Generations

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• I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

  Mira Nair

  Hangover, School, Years

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• Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fog, Mind, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.

  Steve Wozniak

  Successful, Thinking, Years

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Thinking, Firsts

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