Getting Old Quotes - Page 6

• It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, People, Sick

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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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• As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

  Paul Auster

  Boys, Littles, Strange

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.501, Macmillan

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• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Odds, Smoking

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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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• 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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• I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.

  Ray Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

  Rob Brown

  Feelings, Getting Older, Trying

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• The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

  Twiggy

  People, Worry, Getting Older

  "Should we really take celeb advice from Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow and co?". www.mirror.co.uk. March 25, 2009.

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• I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

  Twiggy

  People, Getting Older, Might

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• I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

  Maria Bello

  Play, Getting Older, Age

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• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

  Jenny Offill

  Fun, Getting Older, Fewer

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books

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• I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

  Akon

  Thinking, Getting Older, Want

  "Akon Says His Age is a 'Mystery'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2009.

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• And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

  Sonia Braga

  Mother, Play, Getting Older

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• Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

  Sela Ward

  Women, Lying, Getting Older

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• It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Coincidence, Universe

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.40, Vintage

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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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