Old People Quotes - Page 14

• When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, School, Sight

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• I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

  Hilary Mantel

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

  "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 26, 2012.

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  People, Doe, Can Not

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• Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Men, People

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• I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long, People, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Taken, Thinking, Sick

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

  Joan Rivers

  Valentine, Heart, People

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2013

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• Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.

  Doug Stanhope

  Long, People, Different

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• Why do old people drive with their mouths open?

  Dana Gould

  People, Mouths

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Apr 13, 2012

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• The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Past, People, Faces

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• I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

  Meryl Streep

  Smart, Love You, Men

  "The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star". Book by Karen Hollinger, 2006.

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• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Names, People

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter 6, Scene 20), 44 BC.

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• A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Birthday, Men, Feelings

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• Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Pain, Ignorance, People

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

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

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• Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  Socrates

  Teacher, Luxury, People

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• A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

  David Simon

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

  Source: progressive.org

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• One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.

  Rodney Howard-Browne

  Laughter, Night, People

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• I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.

  Charles Barkley

  People, One Day, Want

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• I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

  Don Van Vliet

  People, Drug, Aspirin

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• I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Mom, Country, Song

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• The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Sight, Names, People

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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