Old People Quotes - Page 11

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

  Kate Millett

  Agriculture, People, Wanted

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• I have a wonderful respect for old people.

  Craig Kilborn

  People, Wonderful

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• I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, People, Stage

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• We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Light, Fire

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

  Myles Munroe

  Kings, Impact, Long

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• It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.

  David Berg

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

  Isak Dinesen

  People, Experience

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Grief, Cutting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Israel, Iran

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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• Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, People, Irony

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Mistake, Twilight, Sight

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  People, Tree, Shadow

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• People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Feel Good, Age

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.7, Random House

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• certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

  Erica Jong

  People, Funeral, Insane

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

  Anne Tyler

  Moving, Years, Names

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

  Betty Friedan

  Differences, People, Age

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

  Barbara Walters

  Talking, People, Perfect

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• If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

  Myron Scholes

  Home, People, Ridiculous

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• Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, People, Age

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• Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

  Bill Maher

  Afterlife, People, Drug

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

  Florynce Kennedy

  People, Black, Minorities

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• When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

  Ernest Gaines

  Song, People, Singing

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