Old People Quotes - Page 18

• I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.

  Corey Taylor

  Writing, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

  Chris Patten

  Honesty, Winning, People

  "Interviews With Michael Bloomberg, Madeleine Albright". "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria, transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• One spares old people just as one spares children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, People, Age

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• The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Cutting, Thinking, Years

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.13, Kodansha America

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• I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Saws, Problem

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• All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

  Lydia M. Child

  Selfish, Failure, People

  Letter to John Fraser, 1868.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Native American, People

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

  Lydia M. Child

  Prayer, Heart, People

  Letter to Harriet Seward, 1869.

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• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  Maeve Binchy

  Morning, Pain, People

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• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.

  Maeve Binchy

  Dog, Children, People

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• I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

  Agnes Varda

  Cutting, Hair, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, People, House

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless

  Claude Pepper

  Tired, People, Useless

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• Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

  Pat Paulsen

  People, Doing Nothing, Social

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  I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Children, Giving Up

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Jul 05, 2015

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• Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

  Lino Rulli

  Class, Media, Years

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

  David Attenborough

  People, Needs, Schemes

  "This heaving planet" by David Attenborough, www.newstatesman.com. April 27, 2011.

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• People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Want

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• If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Reading, People, Repeats

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left

  George Clooney

  Up In The Air, People, Appreciate

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• Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Funny, Yoga, Exercise

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