Older People Quotes - Page 4

• I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!

  Josh Radnor

  Depressing, Nice, Thinking

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

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• From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

  David Berg

  Maturity, People, Heaven

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• The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

  Vy Higginsen

  People, Forever, Mind

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social Security would never have passed, and our older people would not have this great support that our people provide. It has been my experience that Democrats generally vote to protect the people, while Republicans seem to try to protect the interests of big business.

  Sam Rayburn

  People, Support, Political

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• The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  People, Motorcycle, Young

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• I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realise how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Looks, Helping

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Gordon Brown is crushingly dull. I'd advocate a revolution'". Interview with Nick Duerden, www.independent.co.uk. May 8, 2009.

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• We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  People, Want, Way

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• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Beautiful, People, Agitation

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.27, Random House

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• My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

  Alex Trebek

  Dad, Drinking, Thinking

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• More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

  Bob Newhart

  Laughter, People, Answers

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• I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

  David R. Brower

  People, Impossible, Young

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• I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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• Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

  Germaine Greer

  Passion, Love Life, People

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• As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Sea, Law

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.323, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I hang out with a lot of older people, so I've matured a little bit, but I do still have my immature side.

  Justin Bieber

  People, Immature, Sides

  "Justin Bieber Talks Drake Collaboration and More". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. Arpil 9, 2010.

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• For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

  Teddy Thompson

  Long, People, Trying

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• I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  People, Age, Difficult

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

  Willard Scott

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Looks, Sitting

  "Denzel Washington Has Deja Vu". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. November 20, 2006.

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• Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Running, Country, People

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• The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Running, Years

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• Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Passion, Men

  "Bob Dylan: The Uncut Interview". Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

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• People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
  A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge "what manner of person he is." I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.

  James Boswell

  Heart, Kids, Men

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• Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Two, Years, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Racism, People, Prejudice

  "Oprah: Racists Have to Die for Racism to End". www.newsbusters.org. November 15, 2013.

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