Getting Old Quotes - Page 5

• You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Joan Rivers

  Retirement, Fun, Aging

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• I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

  George Carlin

  Happens

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Emotional, Getting Older

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• [Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

  Boy George

  Getting Older, Mindset, Changing Your Mind

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

  Mitch Albom

  Problem, Deals, Being Old

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Disappointment, Firsts, First Time

  Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

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• Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

  Betty Friedan

  Adventure, Getting Older, Problem

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• The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

  Goldie Hawn

  Years, Getting Older, World

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• What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Responsibility, Men

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Understanding, Gathering, Band

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Every fight I mature. I'm getting older. I'm maturing as a man. I'm maturing more inside the ring, but at the end of the day I'm still Adrien Broner. I'm still that kid who's living his dream and I'm just having fun.

  Adrien Broner

  Dream, Fun, Motivation

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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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• One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Pregnancy

  "It's Bad for Ya". Comedy album by George Carlin, 2008.

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• I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

  Alberto Tomba

  Bad Ass, Night, Getting Older

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• Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Heart, Aging, Faint Of Heart

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

  Susan Sontag

  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

  Susan Sontag

  Learning, Mean, One Day

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• Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

  Billy Cannon

  Death, Years, Getting Older

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• I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.

  Delvene Delaney

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love Is

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Getting Older, Age, Surprise

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

  Stevie Nicks

  Life, Children, Ocean

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• Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

  Cate Blanchett

  Kids, Laughing, Worry

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

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• It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

  Emile Coue

  Years, Ideas, Numbers

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• I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Crazy, Thinking, Self

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