Aging Quotes - Page 22

• You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Teens, Next

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• But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Waiting

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• So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

  George Carlin

  Turns

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• I believe in aging gracefully

  Tatjana Patitz

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Men, Personality, Dying

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• His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.

  Aaron Elkins

  Teaching, Lectures, Students

  Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Morning, Heart, Night

  "Required Reading; Sickbedside Monitor". www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• One must take what comes, with laughter.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Laughter, Personality

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• Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

  Scott Simon

  Intelligent, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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• With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Learning, Personality, Rivalry

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• While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

  Jim Toomey

  Cute, Beautiful, Ugly

  Jim Toomey (1999). “Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection”, p.4, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

  Joseph Hergesheimer

  Long, Growing, Growing Old

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• The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Hair, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.103, Routledge

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• After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Freedom, Grateful

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Memorable, Elderly

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• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Memories, Lying, Learning

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• My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Missing, Singing

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Moving, Destiny

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• When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Buddhist, Growing Up

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• Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

  Jane Fonda

  Women, Memorable, Wrinkles

  "Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now". "The Sydney Morning Herald" Newspaper, December 22, 1985.

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• I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

  Karen Lewis

  Self Esteem, Suggestions, Helpful

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• Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Wisdom, Eye

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• O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Age, Quiet

  "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen".

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• Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

  Emily Bronte

  Life And Death, Goal, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Mind, Age

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