Growing Old Quotes - Page 12

• If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

  Bob Geldof

  Boys, Growing, Wrecks

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• I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

  Victor Borge

  Mind, Growing, Aging

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Car, People, Age

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• It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Strong, Ideas, Growing

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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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• Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Growing Up, Interesting, Horrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Writing, Long

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Important, Growing, Growing Old Gracefully

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

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• We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dying, Floating, Growing

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

  Sophocles

  Love Life, Men, Age

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Thinking, Age, Growing

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Demi Moore

  Lying, Feel Better, Age

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• Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

  Kingsley Amis

  Party, Mean, Political

  Kingsley Amis (1968). “Lucky Jim's politics”

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• For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Struggle, Islands

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• I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.

  Hélder Câmara

  Dream, Years, Tree

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• I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Entrepreneur, Growing, Wonder

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Gratitude, Grateful, Years

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• There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Determination, Growing Up

  Charles R. Swindoll (1986). “Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide”

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• It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Growing, Littles, Matter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.264, 谷月社

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• There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Age, Indiana

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

  Henri Nouwen

  Godly, Getting Older, Growing

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• Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

  Regina Brett

  Dying, Alternatives, Growing

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• The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

  Craig Wilson

  Baby, America, Time Flies

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