Senior Quotes - Page 2

• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Education, Patriotic

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Years, People

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• The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

  Lord Byron

  Summer, Winter, July

  Don Juan canto 13, st. 42 (1823)

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• Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

  Kent Nerburn

  Children, August, Fields

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.189, New World Library

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• Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Graduation, College, Graduates

  "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.

  Robert Barry

  Play, Joints, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

  Hazel McCallion

  Running, Memorable, Grandchildren

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• Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

  Allan Lokos

  Wise, Peace, Foolish

  Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.49, Penguin

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• Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

  Douglas Coupland

  Long, Toasters, Citizens

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• I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.

  Wes Craven

  Children, School, College

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• Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

  Mike Rogers

  Drug, Alabama, Cost

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• It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Insecure, Men

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• People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Friday, Monday, Retirement

  Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is...lying about it.

  Katty Kay

  Lying, Cutting, Pay

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• There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

  Marla Runyan

  Kids, Loss, Sight

  Source: visionlossresources.org

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• Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young. So it's like he's sort of a senior and I'm a junior, in terms of the business. He's done so much - from writing on Conan and Chris Rock to writing and directing movies, having his own HBO show, "Lucky Louie," and now having "Louie" on FX.

  Ted Alexandro

  Writing, Hbo, Rocks

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Hipster, Home, Nursing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Order, Knights, Dynasty

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• If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.

  Timothy Geithner

  Cutting, Class, Trying

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• "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

  Jack Welch

  Mistake, Fall, Leader

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• All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

  Clive Ponting

  Advice, Secret, Cabinets

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• Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.

  Jon Porter

  Country, Cutting, Growth

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• I am proud that we worked so hard to improve seniors' lives.

  Mike Rogers

  Proud, Hard

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• The military is such a hierarchical institution. It's an institution where, if you are assaulted by a person senior to you, you're probably the person that's expendable and that's going to get in trouble.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Military, Trouble, Institutions

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• The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

  Dean Smith

  Summer, Player, Long

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