Growing Old Quotes - Page 10

• I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

  Ben Harper

  Fall, Flying High, Dying

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• Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

  Fay Weldon

  Pain, Women, Good Woman

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• In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.

  Holly Hunter

  Nice, Hands, People

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• The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

  Myles Munroe

  Long, People, Important

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• I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Wrinkles, Ideas, Growing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

  Christian Bale

  Honesty, Ideas, Stories

  "Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Bane & More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Age, Looks

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• When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Heart, Years

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• In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Wise, Growing

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• It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Use, Growing, Way

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

  Sophocles

  Growing

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• I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

  George Wald

  Growing, Speak, My Future

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• It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Appreciation, Sadness, Different

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• I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

  Melanie Laurent

  Growing, Want, Scared

  "French Made: Interview With Mélanie Laurent". Interview with Katya Foreman, wwd.com. May 27, 2009.

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• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  Cat Power

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

  David Eddings

  Powerful, Dark, Night

  David Eddings (2010). “Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad”, p.136, Random House

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• Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

  August Strindberg

  Nice, Interesting, Growing

  August Strindberg (1962). “Plays”

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• Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Christmas, Hate, Loneliness

  "The Spirit of Christmas". Book by Henry Van Dyke, December 31, 1987.

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• The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Mistake, Growing, Advantage

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• Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

  Ruth Rendell

  Light, Growing, Invisible

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• I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, People

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763)

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• Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Growing, Wiser

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• The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

  William Mountford

  Believe, Childhood, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2

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• The real affliction of old age is remorse.

  Cesare Pavese

  Real, Age, Affliction

  "The Moon and the Bonfire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter VIII, p. 49, 1950.

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• Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, Growing, Process

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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