Growing Old Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Rocks, Growing

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• I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

  Henri Matisse

  Past, Delight, Growing

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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 had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

  Thom Gunn

  Cutting, Dying, Age

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• The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

  Gladys Taber

  Real, Age, Growing

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

  Glenda Jackson

  Wise, Age, Looks

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

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• Growing old is not growing up.

  Douglas Horton

  Growing Up, Growing

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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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• Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

  Evan Esar

  Children, Growing Up, Latin

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• There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory... the future is not to be feared.

  Jocelynne Scutt

  Strong, Women, Reality

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• To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

  Regina Brett

  Life Lesson, Growing, Lessons

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• The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

  Alex Witchel

  Moving, Fall, Worry

  "The Spare Wife". Book by Alex Witchel, February 5, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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