Getting Older Quotes - Page 3

• The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Golf, Wind, Age

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.

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• As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Foolish, Grows, Wiser

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• I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

  Olivia Munn

  Birthday, Thinking, Mind

  "Olivia Munn's DOs and DON'Ts". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com.

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• Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

  Anita Pallenberg

  Time, Memories, Heart

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• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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• You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Inspirational, Positive, Laughter

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• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

  Life, Cute, Memorable

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• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  John Glenn

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Funny Birthday

  "Ohio's Sen. Glenn Won't Run Again In 1998" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com.

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• As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Inspirational, Emotional, Waiting

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• We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Funny, Retirement, Stars

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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

  Ida Rolf

  Pain, War, Fighting

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• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

  Earl Warren

  Years, People, Upset

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

  Lorne Michaels

  Knowing, Worry, Advantage

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• In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

  Nick Cave

  Impact, Feelings, Way

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• It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

  Anjelica Huston

  Decision, Criticism, Apologizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.

  Adam Sandler

  Thinking, Care, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Rocks, Feet, Suffering

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

  Mike Love

  Mean, People, Matter

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

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

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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