Age Quotes - Page 29

• Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Writing, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  Stephen Spender

  People, Alive, Want

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• I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mirrors, Differences

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• I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Men, Differences, Geek

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• I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Golf

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• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  Sam Worthington

  Weekend, People, Tourism

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• Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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• In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

  Mark Twain

  Support, Charity, Three

  Mark Twain (1903). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Expression, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.349

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• It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

  Sela Ward

  Worry, Looks, Losing

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• Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

  Ann-Margret

  Fighting, Progression, Natural

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• I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Stupid, Thinking, Slow Down

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• Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

  Joan Armatrading

  Persons

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• Sex appeal is in your heart and head. I'll be sexy no matter how old or how my body changes.

  Sonia Braga

  Sexy, Heart, Body

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• Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

  Ellen Goodman

  Loss, Lines, Accumulation

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think age is an ugly process. I think age is a beautiful thing. I love wrinkles. I don't like falling down. If I just wrinkle, I may not touch. If I fall down, I'll lift up.

  Linda Evangelista

  Beautiful, Fall, Thinking

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• Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

  Barry Bonds

  Care, May, How You Feel

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• In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.

  Holly Hunter

  Nice, Hands, People

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• My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

  Edvard Munch

  Ideas, Deeds, Starting

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• According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Majority, Research

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• Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

  May Sarton

  Light, Ascent, Illness

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• I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

  Judith Viorst

  Littles, Thighs, Cleavage

  Judith Viorst (2001). “Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I am luminous with age.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Luminous

  Meridel Le Sueur (1970). “Corn Village: A Selection”

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• It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

  Barbara Mertz

  Youth, Easier, Counterfeit

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• Years do not always make age.

  George Sand

  Years

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.93

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