Aging Quotes - Page 26

• Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

  James Webb Young

  Principles, Drs, Facts

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• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Thinking, Mind

  'Lines on Facing Forty' (1942)

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• I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

  Ogden Nash

  Birthday, Age, Berries

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• At 50 you now have realized
  ?Getting old isn't fair?
  And that it's hard to make a comeback
  ?When you haven't gone anywhere

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Age, Gone

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• I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

  Winston Churchill

  Self, Expression, Denial

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Age, Doe

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• Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.

  Craig Finn

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

  Henry Taube

  Children, Science, Years

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• The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

  Alan Tudyk

  Fruit, Raisins

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• We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

  Jim Broadbent

  Giving, Age, Seems

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• It is important to make the best out of every generation.

  Forest Whitaker

  Important, Generations

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• I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

  Dabbs Greer

  Past, Up To You, Want

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

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• I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

  Christopher Plummer

  Thinking, Talking, Ends

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• Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.

  Michael Wincott

  Childhood, Crow, Moments

  "Fictional character: Top Dollar". "The Crow", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.

  Brenda De Banzie

  Guilt, Want, Over It

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• You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.

  Michael Rennie

  Young, Be Young

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• In Italy, age is an asset.

  Isa Miranda

  Age, Assets

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• He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

  Dennis Price

  Men, Age, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Louis Mazzini". "Kind Hearts and Coronets", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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• Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.

  Eda LeShan

  Book, Missing, Age

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• The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.

  Linda Martin

  Thinking, Faces

  Linda Martin, Kerry Segrave (1986). “Women in Comedy”

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• I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

  Robin Wright

  Thinking, Careers, Leader

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• I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Stars, Night, Lakes

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• Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

  George Carlin

  Keys, Half, Four

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• But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

  George Carlin

  Fun, Sound, Milk

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