Older People Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fall, People, Looks

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• So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.

  George Chuvalo

  People, Young

  Source: fightnetwork.com

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• Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, People, Able

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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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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• Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

  Helen Hayes

  Learning, Home, Taught Us

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• I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

  Bob Hope

  People, Age, Aging

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• I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

  Justin Bieber

  Heart, Artist, Thinking

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• Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Past, People

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• Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

  Black Elk

  Children, Native American, Heart

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Thinking, People

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• Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Time, Fun

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• Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Marijuana, Impact

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Fitness

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• Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Hurt, Passion

  "Bob Dylan Dropped Some Serious Wisdom on 35 Million AARP Members" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2015.

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• When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Kids, Thinking

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• What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

  Tyler Perry

  Running, Teacher, Responsibility

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.111, Penguin

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• Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, People, Ifs

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• It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Kids, Black And White, Thinking

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• Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Boys, People

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.88, Prabhat Prakashan

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