Old Person Quotes - Page 2

• Never let an old person live in your body.

  Michael Savage

  Body, Persons, Your Body

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• As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

  Alex Haley

  Library, Burning Down, Persons

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• I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  People, Sound, Example

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

  Rolf Harris

  Finishing, World, Faces

  "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

  Ellie Goulding

  Simple, Air, Careers

  "Ellie Goulding: pop sensation". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.

  Bill Maher

  Confused, Party, Yelling

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• I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

  John Cusack

  Teenager, Talking, Years

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• Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Jealous, Writing, Trying

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?

  David Corn

  Years, Advice, Buttons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore community. I am not wholly defined by that as a person, but it is something that has been part of me for a long time.

  Jacob Bannon

  Rocks, Long, Community

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Impact, Air, Drug

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.

  Alexis Bledel

  Body, Sometimes, Boring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, People, Want

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• I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

  Reeva Steenkamp

  Valentines Day, People, Cheesy

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

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• I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

  Talib Kweli

  Years, Care, Misguided

  "Rick Ross Rape Lyrics: Talib Kweli Takes Rapper To Task Over Controversial Song" By Jermaine Spradley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Good Night, Children, Tired

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• Refuse to let an old person move into your body.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Body, Refuse

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.207, Hay House, Inc

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• I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.

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• Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

  Bill Ayers

  Way, Boring, Used

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• There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Book, Character, Fiction

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• There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

  Edward Lear

  Pigs, Ducks, Figs

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear (2004). “Utter Nonsense: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear”, p.29, Lonely Scribe

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• Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

  Bill Cosby

  Worry, Parent, Acting

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