Later In Life Quotes

• Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

  Bryan Adams

  Life Is Hard, Trying, Deals

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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Christian, Mother

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• Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

  William Shatner

  Found, Nobody Knows, University

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• Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Real, Tests

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• I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, Boys, Looking Forward

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• Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands

  Elizabeth Berg

  Appreciation, Husband, Moving

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• While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Cities, Addiction, Spheres

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, St. Martin's Press

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• Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

  Primo Levi

  Perfect, Joy, Realization

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

  Walter Isaacson

  Children, Light, Two

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Strong, Motivation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.97, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

  Aimee Bender

  Strong, Kids, People

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.117, Random House

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• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

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• I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Aftermath, Deals

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• When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Anger, Men

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• I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

  George Clooney

  Get Well, Lucky, Needs

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• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wine, People, Drunk

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.83, Vintage

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• The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

  Will Ferrell

  Girl, School, College

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Feet, Genius

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

  Matt Groening

  Kids, Done, Facts

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• I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mom, Mean, Thinking

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• In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

  Penn Jillette

  Letting Go, Reality, People

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

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• I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

  Khloe Kardashian

  Thinking, Shopping, Cards

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• In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Oxford, Facts

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• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  A. J. Liebling

  Opposites, World, Pitching

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

  Stephen King

  Teenager, Delicate Life, Empathy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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