Getting Older Quotes - Page 5

• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Looks, Wiser, Getting Old

  "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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• Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Birthday, Women

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

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• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

  Miuccia Prada

  People, Helping, Persons

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

  Ann Dowd

  Perspective, Getting Old

  Source: collider.com

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• The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Happy Birthday, Waiting In Line, Age

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• You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

  Joan Collins

  Mind, Body, Becoming

  Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

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• The minute you're born, you're getting older.

  Doris Roberts

  Born, Minutes, Getting Old

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Opportunity, Wake Up

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• It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

  Cilla Black

  Beautiful, Fun, Pain

  "Cilla Black blames hearing problems on damage done by acoustics of Liverpool's Cavern Club" by Danny Walker, www.mirror.co.uk. July 23, 2014.

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  Nancy Astor

  Want, Able, Used

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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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• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  Twiggy

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

  "Twiggy at 60: 'It's amazing I didn't go stark raving bonkers'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2009.

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• The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

  Twiggy

  People, Worry, Say Anything

  "Should we really take celeb advice from Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow and co?". www.mirror.co.uk. March 25, 2009.

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

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, May, Getting Old

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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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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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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, Skins, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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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, Causes, Tonight

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• I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Tomorrow, Should

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