Getting Old Quotes - Page 11

• You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

  Dave Barry

  Retirement, Uncles, Home

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• I'm just getting older and better.

  Neal Schon

  Getting Older

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• Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

  Paul Achleitner

  Children, Long, Getting Older

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

  Jacob Braude

  Wife, Getting Older, Care

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• I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

  Keith Richards

  Evolve

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• Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time that I'm old and I'm getting older and I feel it, so I guess I would rather talk about it with a smile and say, 'Oh God, I'm old!' than spend all my time at the dermatologist. I approach aging with ice cream and a martini.

  Jenna Lyons

  Ice Cream, Expectations, Getting Older

  intothegloss.com. August 2014.

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• There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

  Amy Hill Hearth

  Real, Clothes, Southern

  Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

  Meat Loaf

  Hurt, Feet, Thumbs

  "What I see in the mirror: Meat Loaf". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.

  Julia Serano

  Life, Mean

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• With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Children, Honesty, Mistake

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm getting older now, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.

  Robert Englund

  Getting Older, Surf, Bigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

  Vince Staples

  Hurt, Crazy, Listening

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

  Paul Lansky

  Way, Computer, Figures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mean, Thinking, Get Better

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• As I started getting older and started to learn about the world, my friends would tell me about video games and dirt bikes and stuff, and I'd be like, "Oh, I got none of that." I started asking questions, like, "Why we can't get this stuff?" And it was like, "Well, we work hard to make sure da da da..."

  Fetty Wap

  Hard Work, Asking Questions, Games

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

  Patricia Arquette

  Perfect, Getting Older, Realizing

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• I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Getting Older, Our Society

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You start doing your research and realizing that the fertility rate for women drops considerably. And you're like, "Oh my God, now I want to get pregnant, and now it's a crazy time where I might not be able to get pregnant because I'm getting older and my eggs are aging and my uterus isn't as fertile as it used to be and my loins are not where they used to be."

  Staceyann Chin

  Crazy, Eggs, Getting Older

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good.

  Derrick Rose

  Thinking, League, Getting Older

  "Derrick Rose Talks Butler, His Evolution As A Player & People’s Opinions". Interview with Jimmy Butler, defpen.com. January 12, 2016.

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• I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Sex, Sleep, Exercise

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.

  Moby

  Ideas, Worry, Understanding

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.

  Bryan Kest

  War, Gay, Perfect

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• I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

  Sonia Braga

  Home, People, Stuff

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Getting Older, Sexuality

  Source: wwd.com

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