Getting Old Quotes - Page 9

• Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Opportunity, Getting Older

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  Nancy Astor

  Getting Older, Want, Able

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• Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

  Randy Alcorn

  Getting Older, Bigger, Humans

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers”, p.33, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

  David Thewlis

  Jobs, Worry, Insecurity

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

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• The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Summer, Easter, Pain

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• I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

  Norman Jewison

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

  George Burns

  Believe, People, Worry

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• I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

  Shirley MacLaine

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• When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

  Gail Parent

  Mother, Feels, Ifs

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

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• That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

  Stephen Bayley

  Role Models, Getting Older, Roles

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

  Erin Andrews

  Lying, Getting Older, Grit

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

  Joy Behar

  Beautiful, Talking, Getting Older

  "Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance". Interview with Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2008.

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• It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Memories, Thinking, Getting Older

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me.

  Sutton Foster

  Opportunity, Careers, Getting Older

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Roots, Broken

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.

  DJ Spooky

  Memories, Sound, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Getting Older, Tendencies

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Years, Getting Older, Gaining Weight

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Getting Older, Patterns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

  James Lee Burke

  Worst, Worst Things

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• I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need to hold on to myself or who I was when I was 25.

  Sutton Foster

  Opportunity, Thinking, Amazing Opportunities

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mirrors, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

  Winona Ryder

  Tv Shows, Play, Getting Older

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

  Steve Coogan

  Fuel, Sides, Comedy

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