Getting Old Quotes - Page 12

• I'm just getting older and better.

  Neal Schon

  Getting Older

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• Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

  Will Self

  Dwelling, Mind, Getting Older

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• You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

  Dave Barry

  Retirement, Uncles, Home

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• With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Children, Honesty, Mistake

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

  Cate Blanchett

  Understanding, Getting Older, Looking Forward

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Way, Talent

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

  Pauline Quirke

  Cells, Brain, Getting Older

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.

  Michael K. Williams

  Moving, Opportunity, Dancing

  Source: collider.com

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• Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Getting Older, Legs

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• When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Book, Writing

  Personal inscription on a copy of "Mother Goose in Prose", "The Making of the Wizard of Oz", Book by Aljean Harmetz, 1977.

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• Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

  Walt Disney

  Growing Up, Believe, Growing

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• I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.

  CC Sabathia

  Hate, Getting Older, I Hate

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• I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

  Dave Matthews

  Reflection, Past, Glasses

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• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Getting Older, Fancy, Serious

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• I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.

  Shirley Bassey

  Birthday, Get Better

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• You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fire, Long, Understanding

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

  Henri Nouwen

  Godly, Getting Older, Growing

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• I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.

  Torquil Campbell

  Thinking, Getting Older, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

  Anita Roddick

  Creating, Getting Older, Doe

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• In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and there are a lot of more men than before, but always young, I don't get older men. As I'm getting older, my audience gets younger!

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Night, Men

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

  Paul Achleitner

  Children, Long, Getting Older

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Getting Older, Stills

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• I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Names, Trying

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• There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Getting Older, Littles

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

  John Mendoza

  Funny, Age, Inches

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