Getting Older Quotes - Page 14

• Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mean, Way, Wonder

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

  Josh Lanyon

  Fall, Bed, Half

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• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  Ian Anderson

  Retirement, Dark, Musician

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Long, Use, Littles

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• I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

  Stephen Fry

  Trying, Comedy, Boat

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• I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

  Selena Gomez

  Heart, First Love, Thinking

  Interview With Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

  Amy Grant

  Would Be

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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, World, Surprise

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• Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

  Rick Danko

  Silly, Mind, Alive

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Time, Thinking

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• I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Years, Records

  "Marathon man". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2003.

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• Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Children, People, Body

  "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood". Interview with Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.

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• A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Men, Age

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• One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Mean, Use, Conservative

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Grief

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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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, Three

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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Birthday, Death

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• The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Wish, Dying

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

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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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• 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, Dying

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