Getting Older Quotes - Page 5

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

  Cilla Black

  Beautiful, Fun, Pain

  "Cilla Black blames hearing problems on damage done by acoustics of Liverpool's Cavern Club" by Danny Walker, www.mirror.co.uk. July 23, 2014.

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• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Looks, Wiser, Getting Old

  "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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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 older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Age

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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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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• 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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• If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

  Mitch Albom

  Reality, Atheism, Unhappy

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• In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

  Michel Patini

  Aging, Clock, Cases

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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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• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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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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• Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

  Christina Aguilera

  Want, Fluffy

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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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• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Age, Aging

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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