Aging Quotes - Page 30

• Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

  George Sweeting

  Attitude, Successful, Discipline

  George Sweeting (2008). “The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Positive Thinking, Getting Older

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• I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?

  Leslie Nielsen

  Adults, Pants, Responsible

  "Fictional character: Lt. Frank Drebin". "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear", www.imdb.com. June 28, 1991.

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• At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

  Lena Dunham

  Birthday, Kids, Careers

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• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Birthday, Sweat, Hot Flashes

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Sleep, Giving

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• It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Important, Tasks, Love And War

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• If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Results, Standards, Young

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.263, Bethany House

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• He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

  Philip K. Jason

  Age, Vitality, Underestimate

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• When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Inspiration, Heart, Giving

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• Look at the footprints you've made.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Personality

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• Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

  John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

  Teaching, Parent

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• You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Learning, Peddling

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• You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Dog, Teaching, Kind

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• You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, School, Play

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• Youth passes like a dream.

  Theocritus

  Dream, Youth

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• I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

  Greer Garson

  Retirement, Wish, Age

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

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• The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Hate, Reality, Emotional

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• At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Body, Life Is

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

  Naomi Wolf

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Broken

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

  Debra Winger

  Beautiful, People, Age

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• Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

  Robert J. Donovan

  Giving Up, Failure, Tragedy

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• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.

  Mark Doty

  Moving, Light, House

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

  Ben Bernanke

  Typical, Population, Generations

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