Old People Quotes - Page 17

• I like old people when they have aged well.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Wells

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

  Louise Erdrich

  Hurt, Years, People

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• Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the children' and 'Take care of others.' Take care of old people. And we were raised with those values. Those are very important values and my family and I we were raised with those values and they continue strong in us today.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Jesus, Children

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• When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Responsibility, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

  Bill Vaughan

  Home, School, Jewels

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Curves

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  People, Care, Young

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• Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

  Joan Erikson

  Wise, Wisdom, People

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• Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Oil, People, Age

  Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

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• They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Marriage, Thinking, Awards

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On”, p.89, Penguin

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• I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, If There Is A God, People

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• Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Alan Keyes: Doing What He Does Best" by Kyle Mantyla, www.rightwingwatch.org. February 20, 2009.

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• There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.

  Craig Ferguson

  Happiness, Fall, Thinking

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• I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

  Jackie Chan

  Thinking, People, Enough

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• Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is never cold. Cold people may use power in cold ways.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, People, May

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• In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.

  Paul Klee

  Nature, Children, People

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

  Joe Whitney

  Children, People, Accomplishment

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• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, People, Drug

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". Remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

  Kenneth Koch

  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

  Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

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• Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?

  Bill Maher

  Government, People, Choices

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• Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"

  Giorgio Vasari

  Night, Work Out, Wife

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• there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  California, People, Climate

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