Growing Old Quotes - Page 12

• Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

  Groucho Marx

  Lucky, Growing, Ifs

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• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Purpose, Growing

  1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell inThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

  Max De Pree

  Growing, Cold

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• Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

  Desmond Tutu

  Reading, Home, Writing

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces retirement from public life" by Xan Rice, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

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• One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

  E. W. Howe

  Historical, Age, Growing

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• My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

  Charlie Brotman

  Ideas, Growing, Wonderful

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

  Gabrielle Bell

  Artist, Attention, Serious

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

  Ben Gibbard

  Mean, Listening, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

  Kingsley Amis

  Party, Mean, Political

  Kingsley Amis (1968). “Lucky Jim's politics”

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• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Demi Moore

  Lying, Feel Better, Age

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• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Gratitude, Grateful, Years

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• Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

  Halle Berry

  Hollywood, Example, Growing

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• I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

  Charles Kuralt

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

  Regina Brett

  Dying, Alternatives, Growing

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• The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

  Craig Wilson

  Baby, America, Time Flies

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• I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Entrepreneur, Growing, Wonder

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• We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dying, Floating, Growing

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• I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.

  Hélder Câmara

  Dream, Years, Tree

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• When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Thinking, Age, Growing

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

  Henri Nouwen

  Godly, Getting Older, Growing

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• The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Important, Growing, Growing Old Gracefully

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

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• There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Determination, Growing Up

  Charles R. Swindoll (1986). “Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide”

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• It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Growing, Littles, Matter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.264, 谷月社

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