Older People Quotes

• If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

  Tom Stoppard

  Funny, Ghetto, Continuity Of Life

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• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Blood, Hygiene, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humor, Years

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

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Listening, Age

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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• As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

  Robert Quillen

  Funny, Age, Anecdotes

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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• Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

  Nas

  People, Watches

  "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Long, People, Essentials

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• Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

  Antonio Banderas

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Real, Pension Plans

  "Will Young Voters Sink Obama In 2012?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

  Chip Conley

  Peace, People, Excitement

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

  Julie Christie

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.

  Nan Goldin

  Daughter, Fashion, Kings

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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