Growing Old Quotes - Page 9

• Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

  Gary Gulman

  Usual, Watches, Growing

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• I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

  Freddie Mercury

  Growing, Boring, Aspiration

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• Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Growing, Way

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Eye, Laughing

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.34

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• The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Block, Support

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.

  Geoff Dyer

  Home, Night, Drunk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that.

  Laura Wasser

  Children, Believe, Commitment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't used. Just the naming of something that's invisible, or was thought of as shameful or different - giving it a name that's not a slur is powerful. It's still a little hard to imagine what it might look like growing older as a trans man, but I think that's going to change for the next generation. For trans kids growing up, that visual bridge towards their future selves is starting to develop in conjunction with this trans media wave we're in.

  Rhys Ernst

  Growing Up, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

  Unknown

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

  Angelina Jolie

  Growing, Want, Exhausted

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• I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, Growing, Becoming

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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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• 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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