Getting Older Quotes - Page 6

• I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Stills, I Can

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• Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Frustrated, May

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• Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

  John Byrne

  Might, Fine, Bus

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• This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Support, President

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• One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

  Nicolas Cage

  Limits

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• I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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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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• I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

  Leslie Mann

  Dad, Father, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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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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• I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

  Steve Coogan

  Bits, Getting Old

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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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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• We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Lucky, Terrible Times

  Source: collider.com

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• There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Littles, Wisdom And Experience

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

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• Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

  Robert Southey

  Funny Birthday, Years, Long

  'The Doctor' (1812) ch. 130

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Leadership

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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  We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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• The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

  Dave Eggers

  Air, Arms, Wanted

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”

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• The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

  Paul Newman

  Remember, Problem, Used

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• If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Wiser, Ifs

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• Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

  Deborah Smith

  People, Looks, Should

  Deborah Smith (2006). “The Crossroads Cafe”, p.228, BelleBooks

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• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

  Sting

  Interesting, Singing, Gabriel

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